Covenant Soup Kitchen

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  1. we did our project on the covenant soup kitchen.
  2. Okay.
  3. It was founded in 1981 in order to Alleviate
  4. hunger and food insecurity in the greater Windom area.
  5. It was once the church building
  6. and has given ST paul's limited use of the facility in return for a contribution
  7. um, to cover costs.
  8. The soup kitchen resides in the lower level
  9. and
  10. allows for
  11. patrons of the church to
  12. donate
  13. right at the church.
  14. Yeah.
  15. All right.
  16. So the mission statement for the covenant soup kitchen is to provide
  17. food and access to basic services in an environment of care,
  18. love, support and safety to the people who can be in poverty, let's say, hold on,
  19. Who can be impoverished physically mentally, emotionally spiritually,
  20. socially and financially.
  21. So here's a picture of the employees of the soup kitchen.
  22. So for population served the cabinet soup kitchen provides
  23. care and nourishment to anyone who is impoverished financially,
  24. physically and mentally emotionally or socially and specifically
  25. targets people who live in the window area.
  26. Yeah,
  27. this is their sign
  28. explaining
  29. they're ours and when they're open
  30. and
  31. there
  32. Very necessary to the community in 2015,
  33. the Soup Kitchen provided 56,000 hot meals.
  34. Um,
  35. and that is only part of their services. They also have an emergency food pantry
  36. that supplies an additional 80,000 meals for families in the romantic area in any
  37. uh,
  38. time emergency, like a storm or
  39. a
  40. natural disaster.
  41. The soup kitchen provides many benefits benefits to the community.
  42. They offer a lot of food products to the community, such as tomato sauce,
  43. pasta marinara sauce, diced tomatoes, crushed tomatoes,
  44. they also have single serve snacks and desserts
  45. and bag lunches on sunday.
  46. Um Some of these items include soups, fruit cups, yogurt,
  47. trail mix, puddings, beans,
  48. a lot of different things.
  49. Um They also have drinks with these such as water, juice boxes,
  50. coffee and then they also provide to go meals
  51. for the community and such as canned meats,
  52. pasta meals and proteins.
  53. Some other services that they provide
  54. um include that staff will often help people who
  55. come in to find a hot meal housing and they
  56. also fill out job applications practice for interviews and
  57. fill out forms for health care and social services.
  58. Um They also offer bus passes and laundry vouchers.
  59. Um along with this they provide baby wipes and diapers for
  60. Children size is five and 6 are in the greatest demand.
  61. And also personal care items are given out such as shampoo,
  62. toothpaste and deodorant for men and women.
  63. They also provide meal delivery.
  64. So people in the community with issues
  65. with health and transportation can have their
  66. meals delivered to them and since the pandemic and people didn't want to go out
  67. the delivery service has increased their usage
  68. and there's been more requests for it.
  69. Alright, so next we have adversity faced.
  70. So in more recent years, specifically during the covid 19 pandemic.
  71. The covenant soup kitchen saw lots of different
  72. barriers that they face many different barriers.
  73. Uh Just like when everyone was having trouble getting toilet paper at the store and,
  74. and many other like basic hygienic products,
  75. the, their covenant soup kitchens having similar struggles,
  76. providing those products to those to the people that they service.
  77. So toilet paper tissues, paper, paper towels, soap, toothbrushes, toothpaste.
  78. There's a really long list that we found on their website.
  79. Yeah.
  80. So one of the biggest issues that kind
  81. of affected them specifically during the pandemic,
  82. was having a social, social distance each other,
  83. like volunteers from staff and staff from people coming in for soups
  84. and stuff like that made it really hard since they had to actually
  85. serve every single meal that they provided for people outside because they
  86. couldn't do it inside due to the close proximity with each other.
  87. Yeah.
  88. Oh
  89. and another part of our,
  90. another adversity that they faced during the pandemic was
  91. that people were not really wanting to volunteer,
  92. some staff members were having trouble actually
  93. getting there just because everything was kind of
  94. shut down during the pandemic.
  95. People had to take care of their kids who weren't in school
  96. or they're having to take take classes online at home
  97. and obvious safety reasons also come into play.
  98. Many people just didn't really want to come in.
  99. So, uh, the best way to increase the actual soup kitchens reach
  100. as you can students, we could.
  101. There are many different clubs that deal with community service and helping,
  102. helping those who who are impoverished living
  103. impoverished or low income communities around us.
  104. I know that there are a lot of different clubs like husky thon and I
  105. know there's a nutrition club on campus that helps the soup kitchens in the area,
  106. so I'm sure that they've actually helped at this one potentially before
  107. or I'm sure that they'd be willing to do so in the future.
  108. So I think that we have many opportunities to increase,
  109. increase the reach that this soup kitchen has on his community.