Help SoupMobile Put an End to Hunger in Dallas!
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Did you know that Texas leads the nation in hunger, surpassing California, with nearly 5.4 million people who are food insecure. Sadly, one-third of those people are children.
We are The Hunger Project, Jr., a service-learning team of 5 students from the University of North Texas.
Our goal is to raise awareness and funds for SoupMobile, a local nonprofit organization that has made a tremendous impact serving the people of Dallas since 2003. The SoupMobile HQ is located off I-45 and Good Latimer Expy in South Dallas.
SoupMobile and its founder, David Timothy, known locally as "SoupMan", serve around 250,000 meals every year to the unhoused community and children in need in Dallas. The SoupMobile organization is truly one of a kind and is devoted to inspiring and nourishing underserved communities. SoupMobile does not only feed hungry mouths; it has cultivated a foundation that builds relationships and community for those disadvantaged.
Over time, SoupMobile has expanded their campus to include a SoupMobile Church (next to their HQ) which operates every Sunday, giving people a place they can go to find fellowship and a warm meal. They also recently built a Retro Diner insider their headquarters for all attendees to relax in and enjoy. SoupMan also takes their 1966 VW bus (aka PizzaMobile) for a spin around town and serves pizza out of it each Friday.
Many business, ranging from local dental offices to 7-Eleven, partner with SoupMobile and believe in its cause. SoupMobile has been featured on TV, the local newspaper, and the radio dozens of times. They have a strong presence in the city of Dallas. Have you seen the SoupMobile or PizzaMobile before?
We want to personally thank David Timothy for starting such an amazing project from the back of a van on his own, and caring enough about others to keep it going and turn it into what it is today. Thank you, SoupMan! And thank you to all involved at SoupMobile HQ.
We ask that if you are able, you would donate any amount, large or small, to help us contribute to this non-profit that is truly making a difference for the better in our city! All donations will go directly to SoupMobile so they can continue serving those in need in our city.
SoupMobile Headquarters
2490 Coombs St, Dallas, TX 75215
Local Testimonial:
"Hunger has no face – Fear has no voice
When you are raised in an environment every day things become your normalcy. Your body becomes accustomed to your family’s breakfast choices, lunch menus, and dinner options.
As a kid, seeing grits and toast on TV being eaten by the rich and famous makes you feel that there is not much difference between what you have on your plate and what they have on theirs. As you go about your day at school and your stomach starts to growl, you hear the lunch bell, and you wittily think to yourself, “Saved By the Bell.”. You pick the $2.50 cheeseburger and $1.50 fry from the menu and fill up your $1.00 cup with your favorite soda. With your crisp $5.00 bill in your pocket, you put in your student ID number ready to hand over your $5.00 to the nice lady behind the register, only for her to look at you with a loving smile and wave you through the line and never take your money. More money for you to buy a snacks at the corner store after school when you get off the bus, right? With your after-school snack in hand, you walk in the house and sit down to watch your favorite shows, and your mother tells you what the dinner options are for the night. She presents the options to you like a scene from the Matrix, Blue Pill or Red Pill. But instead, she asks Blue Box (Kid Cuisine) or Red Box (Banquet), and you sheepishly choose the Blue Box because it has a brownie in it. You both sit in front of the TV eating, what you presume focusing on the story lines and plot twists to the shows that you are watching.
As an adult looking back, you realize that the grits and toast was the only thing that your mother had to feed you before school. There were no sugary cereals all the time, there was no smell of bacon that filled the air every morning. The only consistent thing was a loaf of bread and a box of dried grits. But your mother made sure to put on a happy face and serve your food like it was fit for a princess. She not once let the worry, fear, or the unsettling feeling crack through of not knowing how long that loaf of bread or box of grits was going to last. As an adult you realize the tears that must have fallen from your mother’s eyes as she filled out the paperwork for your free lunch request, because she could not afford to send you to school with lunch money every day. It then starts to dawn on you that the nice lady that used to wave you through the lunch line was not always smiling at you out of pleasure, sometimes that smile was pity. And those shared moments of watching TV together weren’t always a shared focus on the funny punchlines, but your mother having to take mental notes on who had up coming sales during the commercial breaks.
My mother never knew how many times I was hungry throughout the day because I knew she was trying her hardest to make my world as perfect as possible. And I was not going to tell her that her best was not enough. When she looked at me, all she saw was her happy daughter who thought the world of her. It was easy to hide the truth because hunger has no face.
As a child I never heard about the fear that my mother had regarding not being able to feed me and herself. I never heard the fear in her voice when the pantry ran low. I never heard the fear in her voice when she would offer me the bigger portion of food, even though her deteriorating health led her to need just as much nutrition as my growing body did. I never picked up on the fear, because fear has no voice.
The SoupMobile is showing the world that it only takes a small act of kindness to see the hunger in someone’s face and hear fear in their voice. Both of which can be noticed and tended to with an open heart and the willingness to help. The outstanding actions of the SoupMobile is doing so much more than feeding the hungry. They are feeding the people’s courage to keep going. They are feeding the hearts of the people who think no one cares about them. They are feeding the souls of those that need to feel like someone understands that they are doing the best they can with the resources they have. The SoupMobile is taking the time to listening to the voices that others refuse to hear. "
Thank you all!
The Hunger Project, Jr. Team