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- You reached this page directly, without going through checkout.
- You closed the PayPal window before the payment finished.
- PayPal has not been set up on this site yet.
If you believe you were charged, do not pay again — check your PayPal account or email inbox first, then contact us and we will look it up.
What happens now
Four things, in order
Your receipt arrives
Within a minute, itemised with the amount and date. If it doesn't show up, check spam and then tell us.
Your gift joins the monthly pool
It sits in a restricted account until the first of the month, when grants go out to partners.
A partner buys food with it
Against an agreed budget line — a quarter of maize and beans, a batch of therapeutic food, a term of cooks' wages.
You get the numbers
A short quarterly email: meals served, what they cost, and anything that went wrong.
One more thing
A monthly gift is worth about three one-off ones.
Not because it's bigger, but because it's predictable. A kitchen can buy grain at harvest prices instead of hungry-season prices — about 19% cheaper for the same food — when it knows what's coming. A third of our revenue is monthly. We'd like it to be half.
Look at monthly giving