soup kitchen
noun
: an establishment dispensing minimum dietary essentials (such as soup and bread) to the needy
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Now, the soup kitchen is sustaining around 3,000 people daily, with hopes to be able to serve more.
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Monica Alba, NBC News, 5 Apr. 2024
Saker said at the press conference that, via the program, up to $60 million has been donated to New Jersey food banks and soup kitchens.
—David Chiu, Peoplemag, 28 Mar. 2024
Children line up at a soup kitchen run by Mahmoud Almadhoun in Gaza.
—Monica Alba, NBC News, 5 Apr. 2024
The committees, which formed during the pro-democracy protests before the war, supervise the main soup kitchens.
—Katharine Houreld, Washington Post, 1 Apr. 2024
Gleaners, according to its website, supplies food to more than 400 partner soup kitchens, food pantries, shelters and other agencies across the region.
—Susan Selasky, Detroit Free Press, 5 Jan. 2024
Over the past 40 years, Tijuana, on the traditional migratory route, has developed an infrastructure of services supported largely by churches and nongovernmental organizations, from soup kitchens to shelters like Casa Del Migrante to health clinics.
—Whitney Eulich, The Christian Science Monitor, 5 Mar. 2024
When a similar situation once arose in Oceanside, and neighbors complained about the soup kitchen Brother Benno’s, that city eventually required the nonprofit to boost security and sanitation.
—Blake Nelson, San Diego Union-Tribune, 10 Mar. 2024
McCoy, of Long Beach, sometimes transforms her clothing stall into a soup kitchen, making meals on an electric skillet for homeless people.
—Ashley Ahn, Los Angeles Times, 8 Mar. 2024
Monica Alba, NBC News, 5 Apr. 2024
Saker said at the press conference that, via the program, up to $60 million has been donated to New Jersey food banks and soup kitchens.
—David Chiu, Peoplemag, 28 Mar. 2024
Children line up at a soup kitchen run by Mahmoud Almadhoun in Gaza.
—Monica Alba, NBC News, 5 Apr. 2024
The committees, which formed during the pro-democracy protests before the war, supervise the main soup kitchens.
—Katharine Houreld, Washington Post, 1 Apr. 2024
Gleaners, according to its website, supplies food to more than 400 partner soup kitchens, food pantries, shelters and other agencies across the region.
—Susan Selasky, Detroit Free Press, 5 Jan. 2024
Over the past 40 years, Tijuana, on the traditional migratory route, has developed an infrastructure of services supported largely by churches and nongovernmental organizations, from soup kitchens to shelters like Casa Del Migrante to health clinics.
—Whitney Eulich, The Christian Science Monitor, 5 Mar. 2024
When a similar situation once arose in Oceanside, and neighbors complained about the soup kitchen Brother Benno’s, that city eventually required the nonprofit to boost security and sanitation.
—Blake Nelson, San Diego Union-Tribune, 10 Mar. 2024
McCoy, of Long Beach, sometimes transforms her clothing stall into a soup kitchen, making meals on an electric skillet for homeless people.
—Ashley Ahn, Los Angeles Times, 8 Mar. 2024
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