The Soup Kitchen The Soup Kitchen has been cooking in Fort Myers since 1984. It serves a nutritious lunch six days a week to homeless and at-risk individuals and families, year in and year out.

CCMI’s SOUP KITCHEN PROVIDES: (i) a noon time meal six days a week to men, women, and children in a traditional soup kitchen setting; (ii) nutritious packaged meals and beverages for the homebound hungry; and (iii) a food pantry that provides emergency groceries to families in need, (iv) bagged lunches for the local labor pool, (v) 2 nutritious meals a day for the children in our childcare center.

The Soup Kitchen’s noontime meals provide a stable, dignified and healthy way for the temporarily or chronically homeless to receive a nutritious meal.

The latest Lee County homeless census indicates that there are nearly 3,000 homeless men, women and children residing in the county, and the many are located in the Dunbar area. In an effort to work toward ending homlessness rather than just managing homelessness, we now assess Soup Kitchen and Food Pantry clients in an effort to make a change in their life with the coordination of other services. Our hope is that in 10 years the number of homeless in Lee County will be on the decline.

The SOup Kitchen - An outreach of Community Cooperative Ministries, Inc.

Support is always welcome, whether it‘s a gift of time or a financial contribution.

Some Soup Kitchen volunteers work through Wake Up America, going to local supermarkets to pick up commodities and transport them to the Soup Kitchen every day. Others work at the kitchen to prepare and serve the day’s menu.

If you think you’d like to offer a helping hand at the Soup Kitchen, please call CCMI’s Director of Volunteer Services at 332-0441, or email her at Volunteers@CCMILeeCounty.com. She’ll help you work out the best “volunteer fit” for your schedule.

Funding for the Soup Kitchen, as well as other CCMI programs, comes from local faith-based organizations, service clubs, private donors, and corporations. CCMI also partners with Wake Up America, the Harry Chapin Food Bank, Family Health Centers, Goodwheels, Senior Friendship Centers, and Child Care of Southwest Florida. CCMI is an United Way agency.

Community Cooperative Ministries, Inc., is dedicated to serving the community more effectively, more efficiently and with greater compassion than ever before. CCMI provides nutritious meals, groceries, transportation, and other services to seniors, homeless, working poor, children, and the frail in our community. Community Cooperative Ministries, Inc. www.CCMILeeCounty.com P.O. Box 2143 Fort Myers, Florida 33902 3429 Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Blvd. Fort Myers, Florida 33916 (239) 332-7687