“I believe that you should give back,” Maureen says, and she means it. After retiring from a successful career in business and a stint with the International AIDS Vaccine Initiative, Maureen jumped into volunteering with both feet. In fact, she is one of our...
You helped Mildred provide a stable home during a tough time If you’ve ever had a growing child in your house, you know what it’s like. They need plenty of good, nourishing food, of course. But they also seem to outgrow their clothes and shoes every few months....
As one of our dedicated volunteers, Ricky loves to make people smile. He knows how important it is because his own journey to healing started with a smile. Ricky would tell you about Angie, the first person to greet him at Holy Apostles Soup Kitchen and Food Pantry....
The guests at Holy Apostles Soup Kitchen are the reason we’re here. One of those guests, Jose, shared his experience about receiving support at Holy Apostles. Jose originally moved here at the age of seven. He remembers his first day in New York City, craning his head...
Phoenix had never heard of Holy Apostle Soup Kitchen. He was just walking down the street when he saw a long line and asked what it was for. That was in November 2021. Like a lot of New Yorkers, 25-year-old Phoenix had recently lost his full time job due to COVID...
If you’ve been to the Soup Kitchen during our daily meal service in the last 2 years, you’ve seen a line of our guests waiting for a hot meal. You’ve probably also seen a slightly smaller line of guests waiting to meet with Jay Alfaro, our Social Services Manager. ...
At Holy Apostles Soup Kitchen & Food Pantry, it takes a village to provide food and services for our community. With the help of our amazing team of volunteers, Holy Apostles has never missed a single day of meal service, despite natural disasters, the COVID-19...
At Holy Apostles Soup Kitchen & Food Pantry, volunteers are the backbone of all that we do. We recently sat down with one of our volunteers, Kathy, who first started volunteering with her husband when they first moved to the Chelsea neighborhood in 2016. When...
At Holy Apostles Soup Kitchen, it takes a village to prevent hunger in our community. Each week, hundreds of volunteers help provide meals to our neighbors by packing groceries for the families who visit our food pantry, handing out hot meals to soup kitchen guests,...
Since the summer of 2022, Holy Apostles staff and volunteers have stood on the frontlines in support of migrant and asylum seekers arriving in the city. Not unlike the unhoused guests we serve daily, migrants and asylum seekers lack permanent homes and face complex...