'Mobil Soup Kitchen' Traveling Around BK To Stop In Crown Heights

CROWN HEIGHTS, BROOKLYN — A traveling soup kitchen making its way through Brooklyn will stop in Crown Heights this weekend.

The Wide Awakes Mobil Soup Kitchen — a mutual aid project focused on Wide Awakes collective — will stop at the Church of Praise and Worship God In Christ in the Weeksville section of Crown Heights on Saturday, Feb. 20.

The food truck will hand out free hot meals to local communities on a first-come, first-served basis starting at 10:30 a.m.

The stop is part of a four-week project where the soup kitchen will travel to a different Brooklyn neighborhood each Saturday. The project, which includes a partnership with the Brooklyn Museum, started Feb. 13 with a stop in Bay Ridge.

After Weeksville, it will head to Bed-Stuy, and then Brownsville.

The Church of Praise and Worship God in Christ is found at 526 Ralph Ave. Find out more by following Wide Awake's Instagram or checking the Brooklyn Museum's calendar.

The soup kitchen is among several projects that are addressing food insecurity in Brooklyn.

Kings County — which already had 14 percent of its residents struggling to find food before the pandemic — was projected to reach 20 percent food insecurity in 2020.

Patch has partnered with Feeding America to help raise awareness on behalf of the millions of Americans facing hunger. Feeding America, which supports 200 food banks across the country, estimates that in 2020, more than 50 million Americans will not have enough nutritious food to eat due to the effects of the coronavirus pandemic. This is a Patch social good project; Feeding America receives 100 percent of donations. Find out how you can donate in your community or find a food pantry near you.