Paying our Blessing Forward
Me and my team at the Abbey Catering and the Cuvier Club (San Diego Wedding Venue) have been practically unemployed since March 2020 due to COVID. However, we count our blessings daily for our health and for our food security. Although many of us are facing severe financial hardship, we never lost our mission and spirit of helping our neighbors and community. To that end, we started at the beginning of the lock down last year donating weekly hot meals to unemployed hospitality workers. It was very well received, needed and was certainly appreciated. It felt great to help out those in need especially in our industry. Now we have pivoted and are donating, preparing and delivering gourmet HOT meals with several face masks to the homeless in San Diego county weekly. We also say hello and have short conversations with them. (At a safe distance since most don’t have masks. They always ask us for masks. ) We distribute these meals just walking around several blocks downtown and in local neighborhoods. The need for more help/food to the homeless is severe.
Based on the severe demand, we are hoping to expand this and open up the opportunity for our community members and neighbors to help by sponsoring meals. Sponsors are welcome to pick up the meals from our kitchen and distribute them on their own or we are happy to do it.
2021 is off to a great start! This year alone, we have already donated, prepared and passed out over 10,000 meals! Thank you to our entire volunteer abbey catering team and the countless hours from all the volunteers that come and help us each week!
In good health,
Zapher D
President & Founder
The Abbey Catering Team
Progress:
In 2021 alone, we have already donated, prepared and passed out over 9000 meals!
4/1/21 100 meals donated by Abbey catering, 350 meals donated by sponsors
4/22/21 100 meals donated by Abbey catering, 350 meals donated by sponsors
4/28/21 100 meals donated by Abbey catering, 350 meals donated by sponsors
4/22/21 100 meals donated by Abbey catering, 350 meals donated by sponsors
4/28/21 100 meals donated by Abbey catering, 350 meals donated by sponsors
05/06/21 100 meals donated by Abbey catering, 350 meals donated by sponsors
05/13/21 100 meals donated by Abbey catering, 350 meals donated by sponsors
05/20/21 100 meals donated by Abbey catering, 350 meals donated by sponsors
05/27/21 100 meals donated by Abbey catering, 350 meals donated by sponsors
>>> Continues every week
So far this year we have produced and delivered over 10,000 meals to our homeless neighbors.
