About Us

From 2013 to 2020, we organized food tables on the Río Piedras and Cayey campus of the UPR. Through the contribution system, students had access to a plate of food while they could get involved by giving work time, food or a monetary donation. During the passage of Hurricane María, the central operation moved to Caguas, where the rescue of the Mutual Support Center (CAM), current headquarters of Soup Kitchens, was carried out. From there, as in other places in Puerto Rico, the Mutual Support Center rose as a flag to face the political disaster of the state and federal government. Food was channeled and dozens of people were organized who prepared food daily for months. Little by little, CAM has become a local, community and popular response to the disaster of capitalism and its crises. During COVID, the Solidarity Purchases program was launched from a network of communities that in their localities took charge of addressing hunger. Additionally, we work a Health and Wellness Space with auriculotherapy’s trained in the community to manage stress, anxiety, depression, panic attacks and insomnia. Although it is still in the design phase, we are setting up the first consumer cooperative in Puerto Rico, the Super Solidarity Cooperative, which seeks to obtain quality and local food at affordable prices.

Comedores Sociales seeks to eradicate hunger in Puerto Rico while strengthening a social fabric that seeks lasting social transformations under parameters of solidarity, mutual aid, self-management, and autonomy. His vision is to lead the food change in Puerto Rico towards food management as a public, health and community issue. Its mission is to achieve the sustainable management of solidarity food and education projects through collective work.