The Capital chapel that serves dinner every Thursday to 80 homeless people

This solidarity group used to distribute food in the terminal or on the street but they started looking for a place because they wanted people “to be able to sit and share a moment and not eat lying around or in the gutter,” he explained to Tiempo de San Juan Carolina Castro.

Carolina is one of the women who is with the Thursday group but maintains that there are other solidarity teams that give dinner on Tuesdays and Wednesdays.

“We also make a cake once a month and celebrate the birthday of everyone who has a birthday that month. It is also a way to recognize them,” said the young woman.

In the kitchen is Marisa Rosales, a woman from San Juan who dedicates herself to making food as a job to support her family and who also puts on her shirt on Thursdays to cook for 100 people.

“We have about 80 but we always do a little more because some repeat themselves or take them home in the tupperware. Before the people who came were car attendants, most of them men. Now we have more and more women with children,” Marisa lamented.

The Thursday dinner solidarity group starts cooking at 5 p.m. and stays every day until 10 p.m., they don’t stop until the last one has gotten up from eating after dinner.

The tables are set up on several planks arranged in a grassy background of the chapel. It seems like just another restaurant where everyone talks, laughs, shares a moment as if it were any family that gets together to eat on a Sunday.

“For us, finding this place was a miracle,” Carolina acknowledges. This Thursday, April 18, attendees were able to dine on polenta with tuco and cheese which, luckily, was followed by a delicious cake since it occurred to them to celebrate April birthdays as well.

“You always come here thinking that you are going to give something and what you receive is more. There is not a single day that I don’t go home excited,” Carolina closed.

If you want to help one of the groups that feed homeless people on Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays, you can visit the Nuestra Señora de la Paz Chapel, located in San Luis and the United States. If you want to help one of the groups that feed homeless people on Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays, you can visit the Nuestra Señora de la Paz Chapel, located in San Luis and the United States.