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Weekly meals for students and shift workers in Johannesburg
Help keep a free food pantry open for students and shift workers in Johannesburg.
🇿🇦 Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa677 views
Since 2022, our volunteer team has run the Thursday Table every Thursday from the back of the mosque courtyard. We started with 16 families, and now we feed 274 each week.
Donations have dropped by about 37% this summer, while the line has grown every single week.
We rely on volunteers - 12 of us - and keep no salaries or overhead. I buy staples at wholesale prices at the Johannesburg market and keep every receipt.
Each $10 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 $600 goes:
• Rice, beans, flour and oil (wholesale): $165
• Fresh vegetables and fruit: $290
• Baby formula and diapers: $70
• Refrigeration and electricity: $75
Thank you so much.
- Mbali
Updates from Mbali
We're at 28% thanks to 8 of you. the first invoice got paid this week. More news soon.
Thank you all. We're at 23% now ($135). I'm honestly stunned. I met with the wholesaler and confirmed the amounts.
Small update. $105 so far, we've started the first stage. - Mbali
- Rylee T. Snyder 🇬🇧 · $5
- Valerio Rocco Martinelli 🇮🇹 · $242
“Hope things get better. Shared with friends too. - Bologna”
- Alok S. Thakur 🇮🇳 · $25
“Thought of Mbali all day after reading this. - Madurai”
- Fernando Diego Moreira 🇧🇷 · $31
“Keep your head up. Hope the April deadline works out. - Niterói”
- Hoa Minh Bui 🇻🇳 · $25
- Lincoln S. Cunningham 🇺🇸 · $25
- Anonymous 🇹🇷 · $5
- Yasir Faisal Orakzai 🇵🇰 · $25
- Rajiv S. Doshi 🇮🇳 · $5
- Sinta Ika Handoko 🇮🇩 · $50
- Salim Mwangi Mukasa 🇰🇪 · $25
- Rony Sabbir Rahman 🇧🇩 · $10
- Travis F. Juarez 🇺🇸 · $20
“Get well soon. Thought of Mbali all day after reading this. - Detroit”
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Praying for you. More neighborhoods should do this. Don't be hard on yourself for asking. Take care.
Thinking of you, Mbali. Projects like this are what make a place worth living in. All the best.
Praying for you, Mbali. Hope the build day goes well, wish I lived closer. Blessings.
Take care, Mbali. Everyone deserves a bit of help sometimes.