Sisters of the Road

Sisters of the Road is more than your average soup kitchen.  Addressing the need for a safe place for people, especially homeless women, to eat a good meal, and to get job training, the founders created Sisters of the Road.  A place that would listen to and address the needs of the community it served.

According to the website:

All of Sisters’ programs are customer-driven solutions to the calamities of homelessness and poverty.  Everything we do comes from what the customers say is needed.

The founders of Sisters Of The Road Café conceived of a restaurant where wholesome meals would be affordable to very low-income people, and where those who lacked the price of a meal could trade work for food.  Even those with no training or education would be able to work for the price of a meal.

The ongoing experiment in community building known as Sisters Of The Road Cafe began on November 7, 1979 with three goals which remain unchanged:

1. The creation of a safe and welcoming environment to neighborhood residents, especially women and children, where
2. nourishing meals would be served at little cost or in exchange for work and
3. job training and employment experience would be available.