Shadee Elmasry – Support The Soup Kitchen Become SelfSustaining
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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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Please forgive us and guide us to paradise
Rama.
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Please forgive us and guide us to paradise