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Weekly meals for students and shift workers in Greensboro
Santiago runs a volunteer pantry feeding 213 families; this fund restocks shelves for the harvest gap.
🇺🇸 Greensboro, North Carolina, United States2,740 views
Since 2022, our volunteer team has run Community Pantry every Wednesday from the back of the mosque courtyard. We started with 9 families, and now we feed 213 each week.
Donations have dropped by about 34% this harvest gap, while the line has grown every single week.
We rely on volunteers - 7 of us - and keep no salaries or overhead. I buy staples at wholesale prices at the Greensboro market and keep every receipt.
Each $50 feeds a family of four for a week.
I'll post the weekly shopping receipts and a photo of the shelves each Sunday.
Where the $3,150 goes:
• Rice, beans, flour and oil (wholesale): $1,550
• Fresh vegetables and fruit: $1,050
• Baby formula and diapers: $200
• Refrigeration and electricity: $350
Glad we found this place.
Updates from Santiago
Quick update: $2,121 raised so far (67%). I made the first payment toward fresh vegetables and fruit. Receipts coming as soon as I have them.
Update from Greensboro: I made the first payment toward baby formula and diapers. We're at 15% of the goal. Thank you for believing in us.
- Pankaj P. Soni 🇮🇳 · $75
- Yasmin Hana Rahman 🇪🇬 · $10
- Diego K. Castro 🇺🇸 · $25
“Get well soon. My mother told me about this one. - Tallahassee”
- Goro Kouki Miura 🇯🇵 · $25
- Patricia W. Hernandez 🇵🇭 · $250
“From my family to yours. Gave what I could this week. - Calamba”
- Ellie Weber 🇺🇸 · $25
- Atim Nakato Lubega 🇰🇪 · $10
- Benjamin L. Flores 🇵🇭 · $25
- Ezekiel C. Parker 🇺🇸 · $20
- Grayson E. Fields 🇺🇸 · $11
- Priscila Cristiane Cunha 🇧🇷 · $100
- Caleb Bell 🇺🇸 · $50
“Sending love. Hope the December deadline works out. - Jacksonville”
- Jitra Uthai Phetcharat 🇹🇭 · $50
- Anonymous 🇺🇸 · $25
- Dinesh A. Shukla 🇮🇳 · $5
- Tong Xia Ye 🇺🇸 · $76
- Akash C. Dhawan 🇮🇳 · $60
- Liza H. Quizon 🇵🇭 · $25
- Anonymous 🇨🇦 · $50
- Beatrice Aisha Njoroge 🇹🇿 · $30
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Take care, Santiago. Projects like this are what make a place worth living in. Wish I lived closer to Mbale so I could bring a meal.
So sorry you're going through this, Santiago. I hope things turn around soon. I went through something like this 13 years ago and strangers helped me out. God bless
Wishing you the best, Santiago. Gave what I could, wish it was more
Hope this works out for you. Thinking of Greensboro
Thinking of you and your family. Hope the build day goes well, wish I lived closer. It's not much but it's yours. Thinking of Greensboro.
Keep going, Santiago. Gave what I could, wish it was more.