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
		

			with who's been our eyes we
searched through the skies waiting
		

			for our role friends
		

			with loved ones nearby and our
spirits high.
		

			Time will spend
		

			love and fear to Allah we drawn
here
		

			reins to this guy
		

			Please forgive us and guide us to
paradise
		

			Rama.
		

			day and all night noble words will
reside here in our hearts with
		

			revealed on
		

			a guide through this world to the
		

			life path nations have done well
fast for the one creator from him
		

			shines all by
		

			Please forgive us and guide us to
paradise