SevaTruck - Michigan

SevaTruck Mission: Combat Hunger, Serve Humanity and Build Unity.

42.2 million Americans lived in food insecure households, including 29.1 million adults and 13.1 million children. 13 percent of households (15.8 million households) are food insecure. 5 percent of households (6.3 million households) experience very low food security.

Aasraa is excited to be partner with D.C based SevaTruck by launching the 2nd SevaTruck in the US. Our goal is to help food insecure households in the Metro Detroit Area.

To assist in this, Aasraa will be partnering with local organizations(already doing amazing work), by providing meals for families in need.

The SevaTruck team has kindly loaned the Aasraa team the capital required to make this truck a reality. Our goal is repay this loan as quickly as possible, so they can help the next truck get up and running in another city.

The breakdown of our costs are below:
Cost of used truck: $12,500
Cost of building out the truck: $34,630.72
Cost of kitchen equipment: $5,625.49
Annual insurance costs: $3,522.00
Licensing fees: $2,241.00
Repairs to truck: $2,732.02
Miscellaneous Expenses: $201.43

Total Cost: $61,452.66

We have attached receipts for the purchase of the truck, equipment and the contract for building the truck out.

If you have any questions please email us at info@aasraa.org.

Some information about food insecurity in the Metro Detroit Area:

*When people in the U.S. speak of hunger, they define hunger as an inability to obtain sufficient food for their households. People skip meals, cut back on the quality or quantity of meals, and may potentially suffer malnutrition over time.

*In Macomb, Oakland and Wayne Counties, one in five children live in poverty. In the tri-county area 500,000 people including nearly 200,000 children, live in poverty.

*Four million households in Michigan live at risk of hunger.

*Michigan lost one million jobs over the past decade. A large share of the jobs lost once resided here in Southeast Michigan. Those lost jobs were high- and middle-wage lower-education jobs in lower-education industries. It is unlikely these jobs will ever return.