Breakfast at the American homeless shelter

This shelter can temporarily live up to 500 people, and they are fed 3 times a day. At the same time, use the kitchen for a significant number of volunteers. To talk about what to feed the homeless in this shelter.
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1. Breakfast there from 5:30 to 7:30, so had to get up very early. Most of the customers at the shelter are people with mental health problems and drug addiction. Therefore there are strict security measures, and at the entrance there is security and metaloiskatel. On the night shelter was closed.





2. Smoking should not be in the shelter.



3. Slowly gather volunteers. There were about 15.



4. First, upon entering, we were forced to wash hands, wear gloves, disposable aprons and hairnets. So it looks, our uniforms.



5. A significant part of the products - donations from stores. This bread was sold yesterday, and shops give it to a shelter.



6. We were divided into several teams - in the distribution of food, cleaning and washing dishes and cooking dinner. Distribution line began with kukurunyh flakes. Several varieties of milk they have already poured to taste.



7. Then, eggs and bread.



8. Juice and sweet donuts.



9. At the end of the line breakfast looked like this ... Kids were given a bag of milk separately.



10. The choice - coffee, tea, or soft drinks.



11. In the meantime, the other team in the kitchen preparing dinner (lunch) I understand dinner they had fruit, and macaroni and cheese.



12. Fruits (pineapples, peaches, pears, and melons) are laid out on the individual cups.



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14. Here are the pasta will cook in this huge pot.



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16. In the meantime, here are doing a mixture of several different melted cheeses.



17. This is how the final product looks. A total of 6 cooking containers.



18. The third team was collecting and washing dirty dishes



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22. Empty bottles of milk.



23. After the end, we had all clean. Wash and scrub away boilers.



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25. Then, wash tables, floor, and clean the chairs in the dining room.



26 customers themselves were not allowed to take pictures of the orphanage. At the heart of these were native-born Americans (immigrants among them almost none), as white and black. Approximately 70% of males. 25% of women and 5% of children. There was a mother with five children. They were quite friendly, said «good morning» and «good bless you», and many individual approach we thank.



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