Donation Levels 

Bread Is Life is a non-profit project to help raise $10,000 for World Central Kitchen by September 1, 2025.  

The fundraiser is hosted on World Central Kitchen’s site, where 100% of your donations will help WCK feed displaced people around the world. 

At publish, World Central Kitchen has played a significant role in feeding famine-struck Gazans. 

More than 2 million people in Gaza (nearly the entire population) are living in famine‑like conditions under a near-total blockade that severely restricts humanitarian access and destroys food and water infrastructure. 

The World Health Organization reports 3 out of 4 Gazans face “Emergency” or “Catastrophic” food deprivation — including 100,000 women and children suffering from severe acute malnutrition. 

This is a man-made famine happening before our eyes. It is inhumane to allow innocent men, women, and children to starve to death.  
World Central Kitchen is one of few agencies that’s been allowed to operate within the region. Their goal is to feed 1 million people a day.  

Even during moments when their supplies were severely restricted by Israeli military involvement, WCK volunteers fought to serve bread and water to starving Gazan civilians. 

Your tax-deductible contribution to the Bread Is Life project goes directly to World Central Kitchen, and ensures that they’re able to continue their good work in Gaza and beyond.


READ ABOUT WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN -> HOW IT WORKS:

  
  1. Donate to our fundraising page on World Central Kitchen — anything helps
  2. After you’ve donated, you’ll receive an email from us with instructions for how to redeem your gift 
  3. That’s it :)


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$25 DONATION


GIVE  $25 ->  Receive a pdf copy of LEVARE LEVAIN LEVANT, our bread zine that includes five easy-to-bake recipes for basic sourdough, sourdough discard butter crackers, sourdough discard sandwich bread, fluffy pita, and rosemary olive loaf.  
 
If local to LA, you’ll also get a bubbly cup of our 65-year-old sourdough starter, ready for you to bake with ASAP. 

oh this? just some petrified bread found in the ruins of Pompeii, very chill. 
$50 DONATION


GIVE $50 ->We’ll send you a physical copy of LEVARE LEVAIN LEVANT, our bread zine that includes five easy recipes, as well as a deyhdrated (shelf stable) version our 65-year-old sourdough starter. 

Don’t worry, instructions included with how to wake up your starter so you can get to baking within a few days.

this is how your starter will look after you’ve revived it — just add water and flour, babyyyy
$100 DONATION


GIVE $100 -> We’ll send you a physical copy of LEVARE LEVAIN LEVANT, our bread zine that includes five easy recipes, as well as a dehydrated (shelf stable) version our 65-year-old sourdough starter. 

You’ll also receive a custom, handmade ceramic butter dish — a perfect addition to any baker’s kitchen. 

a cuneiform record of food supplies, including bread (top left), 3000 BC, Iraq  
Hope personified as a woman standing in a niche facing right, holding a container of unleavened bread in both hands, from "The Virtues:” Marcantonio Raimond, 1515
$200-500 DONATION


GIVE $200+ -> We’ll send you a physical copy of LEVARE LEVAIN LEVANT, our bread zine that includes five easy recipes, as well as a deyhdrated (shelf stable) version our 65-year-old sourdough starter. 

You’ll also receive a custom ceramic bread loaf platter, made by Michelle, to show off your handiwork.

your custom loaf platter probably won’t look like this... but it *could* look like this if you want...
THE ZINE
LEVARE LEVAIN LEVANT is written by home baker Michelle Pellizzon. 

“Levare” means to rise in Latin, and is the etymological root of both the sourdough baking term levain and the Levant, the geographical region that encompasses the modern countries of Syria, Lebanon, Israel, Palestine, and Jordan, as well as parts of Turkey.

This short booklet covers the history of bread and sourdough at the dawn of civilization — taking it all the way back to The Fertile Crescent, honey — annotated with five easy-to-bake recipes.