Boston - Mother's Kitchen

Contact: Prema Ford
Email: premaford@juno.com
Tel: 978.996.9109
Where & When:
» Once a month on sundays at the shelter in Cambridge, MA
» Once every three months at the shelter in Boston, MA

Mother's Kitchen is one of the seva projects of the Ammachi's Boston Satsang Group.

Mother's Kitchen is an emergency meal program that provides hot wholesome vegetarian meals to the homeless at two shelters in the cities of Boston and Cambridge in Massachusetts. Five to six devotee volunteers cook and deliver a hot meal for 30 to 40 homeless adults once a month to a shelter in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Ten to twenty devotees including teenagers cook and serve a lunch meal on site for 100 to 150 homeless women, some with children, once every three months at a shelter in the city of Boston, Massachusetts.

Our Books for People project often distributes books to the shelter's library. Toiletries and clothing are collected from devotees and donated to the shelters for its residents, on special occasions during Amma's Birthday Celebration week. Guitar music and singing is often played at lunch at the Boston city shelter by a local devotee, where we actually cook and serve the food on site.

Mother's kitchen started in Boston in 1998. A female devotee, inspired by AMMA's call to her Satsang to serve meals to the poor, pioneered Mother's kitchen at a homeless shelter in Cambridge MA. The project was announced at Satsang and a handful of devotees volunteered to cook meals at home and deliver the meals to the shelter. About 500 meals were served from 1998 through 2000 at the Cambridge shelter.

Favorite Recipes:
» Vegetarian lasagna
» Hearty minestrone soup
» Salad
» Bread
» Dessert

Mother's kitchen expanded in 2000, under the leadership of another devotee coordinator, to include a second and bigger shelter for women with children in the city of Boston. Once every three months a group of volunteer devotees, cooked and served over 1000 meals to homeless women and children. With this expansion, more devotees from different location in Massachusetts and vicinity participated in fulfilling Amma's call for feeding the poor and the needy in our community.

--- A report by Mother's Boston children

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