Sort Food on Sundays

Bread Across Borders is an all-volunteers organization that started in 2020 during the lockdown with the delivery model - of distributing bread to different families. It has grown to include produce, eggs, meats, etc. We take the boxes directly to families and they take the food and distribute the items within their own communities. 

We collect surplus food from stores & farms and redistribute to the working-class communities of Charlottesville – to a variety of low-income members of the Charlottesville community, to immigrant communities (Middle Eastern, African, Latin American), and also, to elders and folks with disabilities. Currently, we serve 15 - 20 families each week, we hope to increase the no. to 50 this year. We plan to have a member of a community deliver food to a different community in town, hence, breaking down barriers and borders in our local community. 

Why BAB:

• Bread Across Borders is an affiliate of Virginia Organization.

• We are an authorized agent of Feeding America Affiliate (Blue Ridge Area Food Bank). 

• We are a group of dedicated, conscious, community-oriented volunteers.

• We have a tax id and liability coverage.

• We’re connected to a wide range of sections of our Charlottesville community.

• All are welcome to join us and share food with us, no one is excluded.

• We’re connected to the UVA student volunteer services.

• We have two large vans available to pick up food any day of the week.

• We have access to a temperature controlled refrigerated room.

•  No food is wasted, we have a long experience with “which community eats which food”.

• Compost is sent to farms for their animals.

• See our pictures in action on Facebook: Bread Across Borders.