charity :: feeding

Every day about 2000 people get free lunches in the Stephania cafe. On July 12, 2001 we celebrated the day, when the millionth visitor came to the cafe. Taking into account that there are 3 million inhabitants in Kiev, we can say that we have fed every third kievite.

From 9 o'clock in the morning till 9 o'clock in the evening everybody can have one lunch here, without any documents and certificates. The only condition is to be sober; we do not allow to come in for those who are overtaken with drink.

The visitors are so different. They can be candidates of science, producers, and musicians, people that have two higher educations. They worked honestly their whole life, but they couldn't adapt to "market conditions".

60 persons can seat in the comfortable cafe hall. There is a separate dinning-room for children. Everywhere is clean and in order.

The menu of free lunch consists of: clear soup, topping, salad, sausage, tea and bread.

• The stuff of the cafe consists of 30 persons.
• Visitors of the Stephania cafe are mostly homeless people, invalids, elderly people, and children.
• Since opening till this day 1 071 139 visitors have been fed here! Out of them: men - 717 004, women - 275 878, children - 78 262.
• From July 1999, the menu for small children (under 7) began to include milk. The menu of the milk lunch consists of: cooked semolina or boiled buckwheat (with milk and butter, sausage, biscuits, tea or milk with cocoa, white bread.

• Since October 1999 the Love of Christ Christian Church carries out a ministry for children every Saturday, after that children get a milk lunch at the cafe. A Saturday menu for the milk lunch for children includes sweets additionally. 4 195 children have visited Saturday ministry.

• From January 2000, the guardians began to work on the ground adjoining the cafe.

• Since February 2000, clothes of the cafe visitors undergo regular washing and disinfection at the City Disinfection Station.

• In September 2000, after repair a dinning-room for children, medical cabinet for emergency first aids and classroom were opened.

Please read the actual figures of visitors, who were fed in the cafe during the whole period of work.