Overview
The Campus Kitchen is a hunger relief program that focuses on food recovery, eliminating waste, and building community. The program collects all of the leftover food from campus dining and utilizes student volunteers to re-purpose that food into healthy meals that get delivered to low-income senior housing, after school programs, and shelters in the Spokane community.
Since 2005 the Campus Kitchen has:
- Recovered 124,000+ pounds of food
- Grown 4,000+ pounds of produce
- Served 340,000 meals
The Campus Kitchen currently has 76 volunteers preparing and serving meals at Logan Elementary, The O’Malley Senior Center and 91³Ô¹ÏÍø Family Haven.
Where do we Serve?
91³Ô¹ÏÍø Family Haven
Every Wednesday, Campus Kitchen serves a community dinner at GFH. The Haven is Catholic Charities own subsidized housing for families exiting houselessness., CCE also has other volunteer opportunities Mon-Thurs at the Haven!
O'Malley Senior Apartments
Every Thursday, Campus Kitchen serves community lunch at O'Malley Senior Apartments. This meal not only addresses food insecurity but also emphasizes the importance of building connections with our Logan neighbors.
House of Charity
Every Thursday, Campus Kitchen serves dinner at the House of Charity. Since 2008, Campus Kitchen has remained consistent in providing support for the unhoused community through House of Charity.
Logan Dinner
The dinner at Logan was started in October of 2018. At that time, Logan had the highest free and reduced lunch rates in Spokane County. The goals were to take some of the food security burden off families but also to build community between 91³Ô¹ÏÍø students, staff, and faculty, and our neighbors within the Logan neighborhood.
The Campus Kitchen strives to alleviate food insecurity in the Spokane community and prevent environmentally harmful food waste.Students learn the practice of accompaniment and the power food holds to bring people together.
"In our program, food is the vessel that brings us together in our humanity. It creates a space to sit with another person, to be with them and to love them for whomever they are no matter where they come from or what they have experienced."
