Scruffy Little City serves as an avenue for LKS Seniors to share their Knoxville experiences with fellow classmates. Please note: all blog posts are due Sundays at 5:00PM each week.
Sunday, March 5, 2017
I Love the Love Kitchen
The Love Kitchen was started in 1984 by Helen Ashe alongside her twin sister to help serve the needy of Knoxville. It serves over 3,000 meals each week and more than eighty percent of these meals are delivered to homebound recipients. The non-profit is unique in that it only employees volunteers with no paid staff and survives purely on donations. The kitchen also does not operate on any government donations or grants as the founders believed in breaking the cycle of dependence on government aid. One of the co-founders, Ellen Turner, recently passed away in 2015.
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I volunteered at the Love Kitchen a few times this semester! A really cool/sad thing about them is that pretty much all of the food comes from Costco. Its sad because so many other stores in Knoxville could donate their leftover goods (like bread, sweets, and vegetables), but instead throw them away :(
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