The Vision of Wayside Soup Kitchen is that all people should have access to the food they need.

The Mission of Wayside is to increase access to food for those in need in Southern Maine by providing a system for community based volunteers who serve prepared meals where such meals are needed, and by collaborating with other hunger agencies in developing an efficient network for the collection and equitable distribution of food. Wayside shall be guided in this mission by a deep compassion for our common humanity.

Wayside Soup Kitchen provides meals to the homeless and poor of Greater Portland through a lunch program offered Monday through Friday and an evening meal offered seven nights a week. These meals see an average of 220 people fed. Wayside also offers a Food Rescue Program that collects surplus nutritious food from local businesses and distributes that food to hunger relief agencies throughout Cumberland and York Counties . That food then benefits over 10,000 people in our communities.

For more information, please contact Kristopher J. Fish, Program Director and visit them on the web at http://www.waysidesoupkitchen.org/