Shadee Elmasry – Support The Soup Kitchen Become SelfSustaining

Salam aleikum, everyone. If you all remember back in November of

2021, I was standing in this very spot, but in front of a very

different looking building. This is a building that we acquired,

and Hamdulillah. Phase one, as we said, was going to be to revamp

the entire outside. And that's exactly what we did. Let's go take

a look

pretty similar to the rendition, we changed the roofing, we put

some Spanish style roofing and we put these beautiful doors in, and

one is for the tenants. One is to enter the soup kitchen and one is

to exit the soup kitchen. As I said, last time, our goal by 2030

is to have a dinner seven days a week, rain or shine 8/4 of July,

whatever it is seven days a week, there'll be a dinner, we're now at

one day a week. We've been consistent on that for about a

year and a half. Now, every Wednesday at seven o'clock,

everyone knows and we recently topped for the first time 100

attendees. So 100 People had a free dinner, courtesy of the

community and the volunteers and everybody all this open space. As

soon as we put down a few of these pavers, we couldn't resist paving

the whole thing you notice maybe in the first video, I said that

we're going to pave part of it and make the rest of it driveway space

but when we saw how pretty the it looked with the pavers, we just

paved the whole space and it turned out to be a great decision

because we have barbecues here sometimes 100 People sometimes

over that phase two is to establish a walk on the inside,

which involves gutting the inside and being able to have over 15

tennis by doing that the whole thing will be self sustaining in

this area of space right here we use a small part of it and we

record nothing but facts from upstairs but the rest of it we

want to use it as a wealth that is apartments for tenants that will

supply you know and fund the rest of our activity this operation

cannot happen without community support so does that come along

here and please help us with this launch good campaign was set up

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