Oakland Community Kitchens Serving Now - By Lukas Oakland's Maria Alderete During Protest

Описание: Oakland Community Kitchens Serving Now - By Lukas Oakland's Maria Alderete During Protest

Oakland – Hello everyone! My name is Maria Alderete and my husband and I own Lukas in Oakland California. We’ve had Lukas now for 15 years, and we’ve been very blessed with being able to serve our community for over 15 years.

I’m here today to tell you a little bit about Community Kitchens. Even though many of the restaurants in Oakland are now boarded up, I want you all to know that the kitchens are still serving and still we’re still cooking in our kitchens. We are community kitchens: my husband and I started Community Kitchens about six weeks ago, seven weeks ago. And it was inspired by a Berkeley Free Clinic, who walked in our doors the day after shelter-in-place went into effect, and they said “We’re reaching out to the homeless community in Oakland. We’re offering them our medical services while our clinic is closed and the best way to keep people healthy would be to give them a meal.

And so we reached out to our communities and our partners and in less than a week we raised enough money to launch a program for a month. We’ve been blessed to participate in world central kitchens program, and now we have redistributed all the money that we raised to feed these meals to provide these meals to 24 other restaurants in Oakland.

These restaurants have served over 7,000 meals to our homeless communities both in East and West Oakland through some amazing community partners, including People’s Breakfast Oakland the East Oakland collective, The Village Berkeley Free Clinic and carries kids.

And I want you to know, even while our cities has some unrest, we are here to serve everyone in our community and we believe it, at community kitchens, that everyone has a place at the table.

So the best way to support our community right now is Sidonie we’re at CKOakland.org you could donate today next week. Well, maybe even this week, if I can pull it off.

We’re gonna be launching a program with restaurants in Chinatown that were really hit, and they’ve been hit from the very beginning, even before shelter-in-place was in effect. And this last weekend they are – it’s, it’s been awful. so we feel like it’s important that we step up and help these restaurants and you can help to just CKOakland.org – every ten meals, every ten dollars buys a meal for someone. And everyone deserves to eat, so help out please. Okay! Visit Oakland News Now Blog https://oaklandnewsnowblog.com Read ZENNIE62MEDIA's https://oaklandnewsonline.com SUBSCRIBE TO ZENNIE62 YOUTUBE HERE:
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