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Our outreach to the Atlanta streets.

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Kashi Atlanta is in need of donations of supplies, time, and funding for our community service programs. Please call us at 404.688.6757 or email us to find out more.

Street Meals Archive
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Street Meals helps alleviate hunger for the homeless population in Atlanta. Every Tuesday from 6:30 - 8:30 p.m., volunteers prepare meals at Kashi Atlanta. The next day at lunchtime, we distribute 350 meals or more in downtown Atlanta. Street Meals is supported by a dedicated corps of volunteers who are committed to seva - selfless service – as an extension of their yoga practice. Teaching people about the joy of community service is a part of our commitment.

We have just begun. We are working with different shelters and organizations with similar goals to expand the assistance available on our streets. We believe that there are no throw-away people.

We also need financial contributions. We can feed someone a good meal for $1.00, so no donation is too small or too large.

We need volunteers to help make and distribute meals, to organize pick-up and delivery of food donations, to pick up donations, and to shop for food that hasn’t been donated. You can also sign up to donate any of the items above, make cookies or muffins, get your employers to donate, or find us a source for bread, chips, drinks, and other food. Get involved and you really can make a difference. Learn to live from the heart and give from the heart.

For more information about Street Meals, contact Sadhu Bhagavati LaCombe, our Service Programs Coordinator.

The Word from the Streets - August 9, 2006

Namaste,

In the seven years we have been serving on the streets, we sometimes lose contact with the people who we have come to care so deeply about. Today we were reunited with many of our guys that we haven’t seen in awhile. Our fabulous drag queens surfaced today. Ms. Chili Pepper was there in all her glory. She hugged on everyone and laughed and carried on! Chili knows how much we love her and that we love to spoil her.

Our Ms. Pearl was at Central park, telling us how this heat just ruins a “girls beautiful appearance!!!” Pearl told us that it was just too hot to move around or look good!

Many of our friends told us about the parks turning off the drinking fountains. They said that the city doesn’t want them to use them. Many of the guys are always so thirsty. Some stores let them fill up their empty bottles with water. It is a shame that they can’t use the water fountains. One of our friends said “ they really should turn them on…some guys get angry and then damage them to get water and then the water shoots out and it’s wasted.”

Mark Thomas has a job now at a business called” Cooking with Jesus” He is thrilled and now has a place to stay. He has an apartment in town.

We got some incredible news today. Connie (a woman that we served years ago), is now in charge of a shelter. It is so beautiful how service goes around.

In Service and Gratitude,
The Ma Jaya’s Street Meal Team

“THERE ARE NO THROWAWAY PEOPLE” Ma Jaya Sati Bhagavati
“ FEED EVERYONE” Baba Neem Karoli

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Kashi Atlanta - Center for Yoga, Service and Community

Kashi Atlanta Ashram
Yoga, Service, & Community
1681 McLendon Avenue
Atlanta, GA 30307