Why Food Fight?

Support a new generation of culinary professionals Metropolitan Ministries’ Culinary Arts Program prepares at-risk students in the skill of culinary arts at no cost to them. The class consists of students from three segments: aged out foster youths, clients of...

“I had a purpose now”

Shanavia had been in nursing for 18 years working with disabled adults when she got sick. “[I] couldn’t carry the patients in and out of the bed cause of the pain.” Unable to work full-time, she still managed to make ends meet and take care of her two 13 year old...

Donneka is a survivor.

When her hours were cut last year during the holidays, she supplemented her dwindling income by picking a job at a local car wash. But that still wasn’t enough, so she applied for day labor, “doing anything and everything I could” to support herself and her four...