We always need volunteers to help us out at one or more of our soup kitchens! Volunteers assist with everything from collecting, to preparing, to baking, to serving food, to bussing tables, to handing out silverware and condiments. Dish washing is also on the list 🙂 And must not forget dish washing, which has proved to be a favorite at our soup kitchens.

So be prepared to roll up your sleeves, spread the love through the power of food, and make some beautiful human connections while you are at it!

Hamra Soup Kitchen, Fridays from 11.30am-2:00pm

Like every Friday, we will need at least 5 volunteers to commit to helping us serve between 100 and 150 needy persons. We will need volunteers to help out with setting the table, serving the food and doing the dishes and everything in between! You can commit to as much Fridays as you can/want as long as you KEEP in mind that commitment is key! Food is generously being donated by one of our Blessed Partners (T-Marbouta and Al Diwan) or Blessed Cooks (Hunger Hero Ousama and Lilia)!
Our FoodBlessed Friday Soupkitchen takes place every Friday from 11.30 am to 1:30 pm in the Franciscan Church on Hamra main street facing Dunkin Donuts and Akil Bros. Church is also known as “Ra3iyyet Mar Francis Elaseeseh”. You can’t miss it! It’s the only church on the street.

If you feel like lending in a hand, get in touch, preferably a couple of days before hand. On the day of volunteering please present at soup kitchen at 11:30am. If you get lost or need help, Ali ( 03 040989) will be more than glad to help you.

UPDATE: Due to construction work in the church, we had to temporarily stop this soup kitchen

Ashrafieh Soup Kitchen, Fridays and Saturdays from 11.30am-2:00pm

For this soup kitchen, we’ll need 5 volunteers (minimum) to commit to helping us serve 60-80 needy elderly. We will need volunteers to help out with setting the table, serving the food and doing the dishes and everything in between! You can commit to as much days as you can/want as long as you KEEP in mind that commitment is key! Food is generously being donated by one of our Blessed Partners (T-Marbouta) or blessed cooks (Hunger Hero Alice, Ousama, and Lilia)!

Our FoodBlessed Soupkitchen in Ashrafieh take place every  Saturday from 11.30 am to 2.00 pm in the Camille Chamoun Public school Building (1st floor).

If you feel like lending in a hand, get in touch, preferably a couple of days before hand. On the day of volunteering please present at soup kitchen at 11:30am. If you get lost or need help, Ali ( 03 040989) will be more than glad to help you.

UPDATE: The Ashrafieh soup kitchen is sadly no longer in operation. We were asked to move out. We are hoping to open a new locale in Ashrafieh or somewhere close to it.  Fingers crossed!

Bourj Hammoud Soup Kitchen, Saturdays from 11.30am-2:00pm

Like every Saturday, we will need at least 10 volunteers to commit to helping us serve between 150 and 200 needy persons. We will need volunteers to help out with setting the table, serving the food and doing the dishes and everything in between! You can commit to as much Saturdays as you can/want as long as you KEEP in mind that commitment is key! Food is generously being donated by one of our Blessed Partners (Lunch bag Badaro) or Blessed Cooks!

Our FoodBlessed Saturday Soupkitchen in Bourj Hammoud takes place every  Saturday from 11.30 am to 2.30 pm in the Life Center Church

If you feel like lending in a hand, get in touch, preferably a couple of days before hand. On the day of volunteering please present at soup kitchen at 11:30am. If you get lost or need help, Ali ( 03 040989) will be more than glad to help you.

“Because sometimes all it takes to put an end to HUNGER is a piece of cake.”
At FoodBlessed, we are always in need for bakers. So if you think you have what it takes, or even if you don’t, feel free to bake for our cause anyway. We have monthly bake sales all year round. The bake sales are a quintessential part of how we raise funds at FoodBlessed! So by baking a cake, cupcakes, or whatever comes to mind, you will be helping us in feeding the hungry, one piece-a-cake at a time!
Keep a look out for our next bake sale, or simply drop us an email with your interest to [email protected]
Happy Baking!

When we think of FUNdraisers we also stress on the word FUN!

Could you help us by fundraising for FoodBlessed. What you could do is maybe you could hold a fundraising event on an individual volunteering effort basis or you would like to raise money through sponsorship of an activity such as a run or cycle event. Want to involve your classmates, how about you host a bake sale. Want to involve your work colleagues, how about you do it through your company’s Corporate Social Responsibility CSR program or just individual volunteering effort.

Food drives are a great way for individuals, schools, clubs, organizations and companies to help supply the non-perishable items that are always needed by our food bank wherein we store all the dry foods that we then package into boxes and distribute to those in need!

FoodBlessed Food Drives are a LOT of fun to host! That’s why we encourage anyone to help in hosting one at their workplace/school/neighborhood/university/building. Just give us a shout and we will help you with organizing the food drive. All you need is to place our donation bins and a couple of posters and you’ll be ready to go.

If that sounds too hard, you can always donate “food money”. A typical FoodBlessed Food assistance Package (FAP) costs us around $35. It has all the basic essentials. So if you and some of your friends try to fundraise for our cause either by directly collecting money donations or organizing a bake sale, it would be terrific!

We have a tool kit that is guaranteed to help organize a successful food drive to collect food donation items for those in need.
Here’s where you can find it:​ ​https://issuu.com/foodblessed/docs/toolkit

More than feeding those in need, at FoodBlessed we also believe in the importance of raising awareness on important issues such as that of food waste, especially that a lot of us waste food without knowing. How many of you when eating out didn’t think twice before telling the waiter to take away your plate although half of the sandwich your had ordered was still untouched and perfectly edible? Also did you know that there are over 21 uses for banana peels. Despite that, most of us, if not all of us, believe that banana peels are nothing but waste. Spreading awareness is very important as is recruiting volunteers and having well connected and famous people as our foodblessed ambassadors helps us achieve this. Moreover being volunteer-driven mean we rely HEAVILY on our Hunger Heroes and by soeaking about our work, we always hope to attract new members of the society to unleash their hidden super powers by joining our team and becoming Hunger Heroes themselves!

We have recently launched the ‘FoodBlessed Ambassador’ programme which aims to recruit an ambassador in all major businesses, schools, religious institutions or any other field. The champion will promote the charity to the rest of the organisation, helping to run appeals on and spreading the word about our work. He or she can do that through their social network of friends, connections, networking, social media. Writing a blog or an article for instance about us is one way how you can help us spread the word about FoodBlessed so that we can have more volunteers join, more donations monetary and non monetary coming in too. Think this describes you? Then by all means, do get in touch!

A lot of times the terms “sponsorships” and “partnerships” are thrown around and used interchangeably but does the wording that properties/brands use reflect how they actually see their relationships? Should we be moving towards the use of partnerships (which imply that both sides benefit) and away from sponsorships (which unfortunately has not been very well explained to the general public)? We don’t know about you but at FoodBlessed, we certainly think so. We believe that having strong partnerships bring benefit to both sides over the long run when compared to short term sponsorships and while we do both we always hope one-time sponsorship build up to become long-term partnerships!
Zaatar W Zeit ZwZ is among our oldest and most beloved BLESSED partners. They are a great example of what partnership is all about! They have been supporting our cause since day one and we wouldn’t trade their partnership for anything. But ZwZ is one example among many. Over the years, we’ve built strong partnerships with restaurants like T-marbouta, Em Sherif, Lunch Bag badaro, Brocheta among other restaurants, partnered with big companies such as Lebanese Food and Drug Corporation, Meptico,Vincent Lb, ifp, itg and Vincenti among others. Other partners of ours include Beirut By Bike. We’ve also partnered with the Lebanese American University, American University of Beirut, Beirut Arab University among others and the International community school, ACS, and other schools. MAKE sure you check our blessed partners section for more listings!
Would you like to donate your unsold surplus products or products close to expiry date? You got surplus food from your event or wedding or business meeting or as a restaurant or hotel have lots of extra food at the end of the day that you end up throwing away? Why not donate that to us?

Tons of food are wasted in Lebanon, while 30% of the Lebanese population don’t have enough to eat.

Join the global movement against food waste by signing the FoodBlessed’s pledge.

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SMW is a community-based & Volunteer-driven food truck that SERVES free meals to those in need during DAY & SELLS pizza for paying customers during NIGHT!
Globally, 1.3 billion tons of food is wasted annually.
This means 1/3 of all the food produced globally ends up lost or wasted on its way from the farm to table.
In the MENA region, food waste is one of the most prominent waste streams, especially in the GCC region.
In Lebanon alone, millions of tons of good food are thrown away every year (with 65-95% of this being organic in its nature), while 30% of the population lives under the poverty line (4$/day) with 10% of these living under extreme poverty conditions (less than 2.5%/day).
Despite having recording the highest percentage of poverty in Lebanon, the areas of Beka’a and Akkar receive very little to no attention and/or aid compared to the city Beirut and other areas whose needs might not be as urgent or as big.
Moreover, with the current Syrian refugee situation, Lebanon is safe haven to the highest percentage of Syrian refugees in comparison with other hosting countries – indeed, 1 in every 5 Lebanese residents is Syrian. That’s a lot of mouths to feed.
Unfortunately, most projects tackling food poverty are fund based and face a wall when funding is out.
In the hopes of building a new Food Aid model that is sustainable, tackles the issue of food waste, and at the same time reaches out to those in the greatest need, SOUPer Meals on Wheels (SMW) was created!
SMW is a “mobile SOUP kitchen by day and fully-fledged PIZZA food truck by night” operating under the slogan “DRIVING hunger away, one MILE at a time”.
SMW is a project by FoodBlessed, a proud premier community-based, volunteer-driven nonprofit organization in Lebanon (and the Middle East) that tackles food poverty and hunger in lebanon while addressing and spreading awareness on food waste.
SMW’s mission addresses a social problem: poverty-stricken people – specifically those who suffer from food poverty and are at the risk of becoming food insecure by providing them with food assistance in the form of free wholly nutritious meals. It also addresses an environmental problem: food waste by tackling and raising awareness on the issue of food waste and food rescue.
By addressing these issues, SMW hopes to
-Reduce food security
-Reduce food waste
-Enhance social responsibility among individuals and corporations
SMW’s vision entails Promoting social protection for the vulnerable communities in Lebanon.
Three years and 280 000 meals later, we are looking to expand our reach at FoodBlessed by reaching out to those in need living in remote areas. As such, we decided to take our existing soup kitchen model to the streets. To MOBILIZ’T!

Support SOUPer Meals on Wheels

FoodBlessed’s Monthly Zaatar W Zeit Outings are a monthly happening all thanks to one of our oldest Blessed Partner Zaatar w Zeit!
FoodBlessed’s Hunger Heroes will be giving 50 underprivileged kids a day full of fun-filled games, story telling, face painting at Sanayeh Garden and lastly wrap the day up with a yummy food at one of Zaatar w Zeit’s branches (in Hamra or Zalka)
Some of these kids have never been outside their neighborhoods or do not have the privilege to dine out!
The kids have a GREAT time, always. No exceptions!
The kids spend fun times at the Sanayeh Garden with lots of activities and face painting and story telling. Then we mount the bus to Zaatar W Zeit – Zalka for yummy food after a long day of fun!
WHOOP! WHOOP!

HOW CAN YOU HELP?
You can volunteer with us either at:
-The Sanayeh Garden where you will be getting a quick training on the activities that we prepared for the kids and games from Noor from Lebanese University Hadath Red Cross Youth Chapter.
Kids will be arriving at 4pm. Then each volunteer will be in charge of a game. Other volunteers will be in charge of the kids which will be divided into 5 groups! So EVERY volunteer counts and we need a lot of volunteers this time because the Lebanese Red Cross are short on volunteers.
That and face painting !
AND/OR
-Zaatar w Zeit, Zalka/Hamra where we will be in charge of distributing food for kids and making sure all is in order. The ZwZ waiters always appreciate our help smile emoticon 50 kids is a lot you know hihi.
We might offer you a ride in the bus if you don’t have a car and would like to join us!
WE NEED YOUR HELP! Sign’p NOW.
If you are interested in volunteering with us, give us a shout to [email protected]!