Bean’s Café spends $2,200 each day to fund the program, but Bean’s Café CEO Lisa Sauder said that the program has used up all the money they have fundraised to provide food.
ANCHORAGE, Alaska - Since July 1, Bean’s Café has been providing free meals at Centennial Park for homeless Anchorage residents. On July 5, the organization switched from providing one meal a day to three meals.
“People need more than one meal a day if they can’t cook in a campsite, and if they don’t have access to a grocery store where they can purchase food or use SNAP benefits,” Sauder said.Bean’s Café spends $2,200 each day to fund the program. This money covers the cost of staff, a generator for the food truck, and the food. Bean’s Café has raised a total of around $21,000 to fund the program.
“We realized people needed to be fed where they were,” Sauder said. “Instead of the old model of a soup kitchen and people coming to you, we need to be more mobile and go to where they’re at.” Williams said that the bears are not the main cause of disturbances. Williams feels that the main disturbance are teenagers sneaking into the campground at night.
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