The University’s unique relationship with St. John’s Bread and
Life Soup Kitchen in Brooklyn provides the groundwork for
effective, sustained community-based research, service-learning and
other collaborations aimed at increasing students' understanding of
poverty, engaging them in constructive research and solutions to
poverty.
An Introduction to St. John's Bread and
Life Soup Kitchen
St. John’s Bread and Life was founded in 1982 and is located at 75
Lewis Avenue in the original building of St. John’s University. As
a ministry of the Daughters of Charity and the Vincentian Fathers
at St. John the Baptist Parish, it soon expanded beyond the parish
boundaries. Recognizing the increasing involvement of University
personnel, Bread and Life grew to be a freestanding not-for-profit
corporation and recently came to be officially sponsored by St.
John's University.
Today, Bread and Life continues to address the issues of hunger
and poverty in Brooklyn and Queens. Every day, Bread and Life
serves over 1,000 meals to hungry New Yorkers and offers many other
services to its clients.