Donations
($$$, Food, Time)
The Pueblo Community Soup Kitchen (PCSK) is a non-profit organization that relies heavily on donations from the community. These donations consist of monetary, food, and time. We serve between 200-250 meals (breakfast and lunch) per day.
Since the COVID-19 pandemic, PCSK has changed the way we serve meals to the homeless and hungry in the Pueblo area. Since we were forced to close our dining room to provide a space to eat, we have been serving breakfast and lunch out of our service door and from under a canopy. Our clients dine outdoors.
Breakfast consists of donuts/sweet rolls, hard boiled eggs, coffee, milk and juice served on paper plates and disposable cups. Our lunches have been reduced to a hot meal 3 times a week and also served on paper plates and disposable tableware and cups. The other days of the week a sack lunch is provided along with a cold bottle of water or soda.
As such, our costs for disposable plates, cups, bottled water, tableware, lunch sacks, individual snacks and chips, etc. have greatly increased. We have still been able to hold our own with our local funding through donors, but our costs are ever increasing. We continue to pray that one day we will be able to reopen our dining room and resume our normal operations, our costs of operation will stabilize, and we can provide services pre-COVID days.
In any case, we will still be there in some way, shape or form to provide meals to the hungry in the greater Pueblo area.
Donate $$$
Throughout the past 48 years of operation the Pueblo Community Soup Kitchen has been good stewards of the generous donations of so many of our friends. In 2024, we continue to maintain that good stewardship as we move forward with BIG plans for 2025. So much of our aging infrastructure is in need of repair. Because of your generosity, we are starting to make those repairs and most important are able to return to indoor dining. The generous donations from the Souper Walk helped us move this vision forward sooner. Starting November 4, 2024, the folks accessing our meals will no longer be sitting on the hot asphalt in the summer and cold snow in the winter. They will be sitting indoors eating their meals at tables, eating off of real plates, with real cups and silverware. We sometimes don't realize just how much something as simple as eating on a plate at a table can truly mean; it can make a difference in someone's life. It is an issue of dignity. If we feel value, we start to value who we are as a human being. Perhaps this is the beginning step from homelessness to housing. You help make this vision come true with your donations.
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Would you like to make a monetary donation?
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THANK YOU!
Food Donations
The soup kitchen relies heavily on food donations from local businesses as well as the greater Pueblo community. If you wish to donate food items, here is a list of things that we're always looking for. Imagine you are purchasing things to fill your kid's lunch sack for school. Same holds true when we are creating sack lunches for the needy. The soup kitchen will have supplies to make sandwiches. It's the other things that make the lunch.
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Paper products (Plates, bowls, cups)
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Plastic wear (Forks and spoons)
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Small bags of chips (any kind will do)
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Granola Bars
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Cheese crackers
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Peanut butter crackers
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Small bags of nuts or trail mix
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Fruit snacks
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Sippy cup drinks
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Applesauce cups
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Box drinks
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Bottles of water
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Candy
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Yogurt
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Cookies
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Rice Krispie Treats
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When you have all your items to donate, pull up to the soup kitchen at 422 W. 7th St., Pueblo, CO and one of our volunteers will be happy to unload your items for you. You won't even have to get out of your car. You can drop off your donations between 8:00am and 12:00 noon, Monday - Saturday. If you have any questions, feel free to call us at (719) 545-6540.
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We want to thank you for your generosity. Our clientele are especially grateful to have a good meal to get them through another day.
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Thank you and God Bless.
Donate your time
Volunteers are what make the Pueblo Community Soup Kitchen what it is. Without volunteers, the soup kitchen would not exist. If you would like to be a part of this amazing group of caring people and donate a few hours of your time each week, please contact our Executive Director, Kathy Cline, at (719) 545-6540 or stop by the soup kitchen Monday-Friday between the hours of 8:00-12:00. If you just want to see what we do before committing your time, stop by and get to know us. When you see how much our volunteers love what they do, you'll want to be a part of this great service too.