![]() One day our supervisor, thinking that there would not be enough food, panicked and impulsively bought $200 worth of beef tenderloin, one of the most expensive cuts in the market. During the afternoon a crew came in whose work was to purchase the food for the evening meal and cook it. We volunteers were divided into assorted types of crews doing a variety of tasks during the course of different shifts of the day and night. The reason that I call it a refuge is that unlike many government-run shelters it was safe and peaceful so it attracted guests who either wanted to get away, at least briefly, from government shelters or who wanted a break from sleeping rough during the winter. ![]() Every Thursday we provided a hot meal in the evening to indigent men, some, though not all of them, being homeless, and along with this we also offered foot care, a “clothing and accessory boutique,” and sleeping facilities for a portion of our guests. It was certainly an eating facility but also served as a provisional shelter and refuge for various sorts of destitute individuals from November through March, the coldest months of the year in a chilly northern city. The program that I volunteered for was more than what most people might imagine a soup kitchen to be. ![]() ![]() I started volunteering at a soup kitchen a few years before the pandemic. So long as you have food in your mouth, you have solved all questions for the time being. ![]()
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