St. Vincent DePaul Mariman Culinary School/
Soup Kitchen
In 1981, hunger became a known way of life for many Connecticut residents. To relieve the people's hunger, Father Cascia established a Soup Kitchen in the Hispanic neighborhood on South Main Street in Waterbury. The Soup Kitchen allows the area's poor to receive, at no cost to them, over 600 nutritionally balanced hot noon time meals, served seven days a week. Over 2,982 different people have eaten at the Soup Kitchen in 1996. The Soup Kitchen Manager also provides a referral service to individuals who express a need. On March 1,1997 the Soup Kitchen closed and reopened, at its new location, 327 Baldwin Street, as the Merriman Culinary School / Kitchen. In this building we are able to provide an education and training program to teach the homeless adults living in the SHELTER a work ethic and at the same time restaurant job skills.
Our Soup Kitchen offers hot, full-course meals to the poor and homeless. The object of the Soup Kitchen is to provide decent meals to the hungry, which they are not capable of providing for themselves. Total meals served - 316,884.
