For the past fifteen years, ISKCON Tucson has been serving the city’s unhoused with a healthy seven-course meal along with the chanting of the holy name.
The monthly prasadam distribution, which includes kirtan, is part of a partnership with Southside Presbyterian’s “Cross Streets Community” initiative. The CSC program is a multi-faceted outreach to the unhoused population of Tucson that offers hot meals, showers, laundry services, haircuts, a clothing room, and a place to feel safe and loved. It’s been an incredible collaboration for devotees to provide for both the material and spiritual needs of the less fortunate on Tucson’s southside.
“We have served over 20,000 plates of prasadam to date,” said Tucson’s Temple President Sandamini Devi Dasi, “and just received another grant of $2,000, bringing the total grant funds to $7,000 over the last two years.” She learned that once an organization meets certain qualifications with its city’s community food bank, it is eligible to receive grants that come up periodically for its work. “For us, that includes the Southside church program as well as our Sunday Feast and various festivals where we offer free prasad to the public.”
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