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.