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The goal of the Samaritan House Food and Nutrition
Program is to alleviate hunger and malnutrition and to reduce the
emotional stress that results from these conditions. The Food and
Nutrition Program consists of the Kitchen,
Dining Hall, Food Pantry,
Mobile Meals Program, and Summer
Lunch Program. Volunteer labor and food donations from local
grocery stores and food banks are essential to the successful operation
of our Food and Nutrition Program. These community resources are
extremely valuable in keeping program costs to a minimum while still
providing quality food to our clients.
Food
Services Clients
Clients of our Food Services Program are generally working productive
members of society who serve as restaurant staff, auto mechanics,
construction workers, and janitorial staff. Their wages often cannot
cover the high cost of living in the Bay Area, especially when supporting
a family, and the meals provided by Samaritan House help defray
these costs.
Kitchen
The Samaritan House Kitchen produces over 120,000 meals each year
and feeds well over 2,000 hungry people per month, a significant
portion of whom are children. Meals are supplied during the week
to our Dining Hall in San Mateo. On weekends,
the Kitchen makes lunches available for pick-up. In addition, the
Samaritan House Kitchen delivers meals to Samaritan House’s
Safe Harbor Shelter and to a variety
of other social service programs in San Mateo County.
Dining
Hall
Samaritan House’s Dining Hall is open for dinner Monday through
Friday every week. Families can come to the Dining Hall and have
meals boxed up “to-go” if they wish to eat in the privacy
of their own home.
Pantry
Samaritan House’s Pantry supplies food boxes full of groceries
for low-income families who struggle to buy groceries. Clients receive
vouchers from a Case Worker at our Client
Services Center and redeem the voucher next door at our Pantry.
This option allows families to prepare fresh meals together at home.
Mobile
Meals
Recognizing that only able-bodied persons were able to attend dinner
at our Dining Hall, Samaritan House created
a volunteer-based Mobile Meals program to deliver warm meals to
the elderly and disabled. Volunteers drive their own cars to deliver
meals to the homebound from our Kitchen.
Summer
Lunch Program
Samaritan House created the King Café Summer Lunch Program
at the Martin Luther King, Jr. Community Center in North Central
San Mateo. This program provides food in the summer months to students
who receive subsidized lunches during the school year. Teenage volunteers
help serve meals from our Kitchen to children taking part in the
King Center’s summer recreational programs, created to keep
kids off the streets.
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