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soup kitchen
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soup kitchennoun
a place where food is dispensed to the needy
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soup kitchennoun
a place set up to provide soup and other basic food as a charity or in time of disaster.
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soup kitchen
A soup kitchen is a community-based or charity-run establishment that provides free meals, usually consisting of soup and bread, to the less fortunate or homeless individuals. Some soup kitchens may also provide other essential services like counseling, basic healthcare services, and assistance in finding housing or employment.
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Soup kitchen
A soup kitchen, bread line, meal center or food kitchen is a place where food is offered to the hungry for free or at a below market price. Frequently located in lower-income neighborhoods, they are often staffed by volunteer organizations, such as church or community groups. Soup kitchens sometimes obtain food from a food bank for free or at a low price, because they are considered a charity, which makes it easier for them to feed the many people who require their services. Many historical and some modern soup kitchens serve only soup with perhaps some bread. But several establishments which title themselves as a "soup kitchen" also serve other types of food, so social scientists sometimes discuss them together with similar hunger relief agencies that provide more varied hot meals, like food kitchens and meal centres. While societies have been using various methods to share food with the hungry for millennia, the first soup kitchens in the modern sense may have emerged in the late 18th century. By the late 19th century they were to be found in several American and European cities. In the United States and elsewhere, they became more prominent in the 20th century during the Great Depression. With the improved economic conditions that followed World War II, soup kitchens became less widely used, at least in the advanced economies. In the United States there was a resurgence in the use of soup kitchens following the cut backs in welfare that were implemented in the early 1980s.
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Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of soup kitchen in Chaldean Numerology is: 4
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of soup kitchen in Pythagorean Numerology is: 6
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