Food & Friends
United States
/ District of Columbia
| Health/Medical
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Reverend Carla Gorrell founded Food & Friends in 1988 when a friend, sick at home with AIDS, needed something to eat. What began as lunch for one has become 3 meals a day, for more than 1,450 individuals, six days a week. Over the past decade, we have moved from a cramped church basement to our own state-of-the-art kitchen and pantry facility and initiated new programs to meet the changing needs of people living with HIV/AIDS and other life-challenging illnesses in the Washington, DC, metropolitan community. For people living with HIV/AIDS, cancer and other life-challenging illnesses, the battle is far from over. We just make sure no one has to face it on an empty stomach. Since 1988, Food & Friends has provided food and companionship to our clients, their loved ones and caregivers. At Food & Friends, we consider nutrition to be a vital part of the treatment for a life-challenging illness. Our Community Dietitians provide individual nutrition counseling to all of our clients and interested individuals in the community who are living with life-challenging illnesses.
