Ramadan Sammich

Ramadan Sammich is a collective of community-oriented individuals that come together each year during Ramadan to assemble and distribute meals to local shelters in the GTA. We find ways to build and foster a stronger community, support local shelters and serve as a gateway to the world of volunteering. Every week, our team gathers at a volunteer's home and brings together our community of support to make meals. 

Our Goal

Our goal this year is to host four sammich runs across the GTA. Groceries for each run costs approximately $500 and donations allow us to purchase enough supplies to make 200 meals to distribute.

Our sammich supplies include bread, bologna, lettuce, mayonnaise, honey mustard, cheese slices, juice boxes, apples, granola bars, paper lunch bags and ziploc sandwich bags.

If we reach our fundraising goal of $3000, we will be able to host 4-5 runs and anticipate providing meals for least 1200 individuals through local shelters while engaging 20-50 volunteers every week. 

Our Story

A few weeks before Ramadan 2012, some friends were on an email thread brainstorming ways to help their community. It was soon decided that they would get together and make bagged meals - sammiches - for a local shelter. That first run, 50 sammiches were made and delivered to one local shelter. 

As Ramadan continued, they started receiving support and donations from people in the community, which led to a total of five sammich runs delivering 1,137 sammich meals to ten shelters across the GTA.

Ramadan Sammich has since grown over the years, completing dozens of sammich runs that provided thousands of meals to local shelters.