As a social worker, my beliefs are that the homeless need to get their needs met through community resources because that lets us check in on them and maintain both their safety and our own, as well as the opportunity to let them know about other resources available to them. I volunteered here once and was impressed by this organization. The clients were truly homeless living on the street. They had two different dinner hours. People coming in off street from the Fremont area and the second group were living and enrolled in their residential program. I called ahead and asked if they needed whole turkeys as I had one left from Thanksgiving, he said most definitely. They did serve a stew type entree, including whole fruits and even ice cream bars donated by some kind of distributor. There was very little waste other than the very full plates as seen on other pictures. A huge bin of day old bread was available for the taking as they left. Again, donated by a bread distributor. This place was truly serving the needs of this community and their location was placed in the midst of a large population of homeless in our community.
I was impressed by the coordinator and someone had obviously done their work in lining up the relationships with mass vendors. I would volunteer here again. The staff were organized and thankful.