But the usual ones you can find in community are free dinners to those that have just lost a job or financially struggling, homeless, elderly and others. One of these organizations is the Table of Plenty HMB that serves dinner every Thursday. They are serving those living in Half Moon Bay, CA and those nearby areas as well.
The food is prepared and cooked by volunteers coming from the donations received either in financial form or in kind. Ingredients used for their food are sometimes homegrown from the gardens of those living in the community. The meat are even from animals that are raised by these good citizens with other organizations helping as well.
Uniforms are being worn by the volunteers with a smile on their face while serving those eating inside their dinner hall. Tables are covered in linen clothe and in its center are flowers decorating it with beautiful musical background playing. This give an ambiance of being inside a classy restaurant which majority of them might have not, will not or will not again experience going to.
You can be a volunteer and be a part of this by approaching those in charge of organizing this and telling them your intentions. They accept people of all ages and children will greatly benefit from doing this activity with their parents. They would all be more aware regarding the need of unfortunate members in the community.
You can also organize this free community dinners in your area if you want to help the people around you. The first thing you need to do is to gather people with the same intention as you are and make an initial group that would start this. You could also approach the local church for help as they are likely willing to assist you in this mission.
Then, search for a large enough place that can hold many people who will be eating the meals you would be serving. There is a chance that your local church would have a place big enough for this need and ask them if you could use it. If there is no available space there then try asking the public school in your community if their gym is available for use.
After securing a place, the planning stage will now start as to what the meals would be. Decide on something that can be easily cooked in big batches so that there would be many servings ready at the same time. They should be healthy as well and options should be available for those that are unable to eat certain type of food.
Assigned tasks for each volunteers on what their main responsibility is. They either would be assigned in cooking or in serving but helping each other when needed is possible. Schedule the date of this dinner and call for people to eat in there.
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