Manna House is celebrating its renovation and expansion that it said will help serve more people in need.People line up outside of Manna House every morning before it opens at 8 a.m., anxiously awaiting a hot cup of coffee and a hot meal to get ready for a good day.Carles Waith is one of about 100 people who get breakfast at Manna House every day.”Everybody needs help,” Waith told 11 News. “It’s tough on everybody. We are all struggling. But if you come here, you at least get a decent meal, see people that you haven’t seen in a while.”It’s something Manna House has been doing for 50 years to help people experiencing homelessness or struggling to make ends meet.”It fuels their body,” said Kristin Fuscorowe, a volunteer at Manna House. “It fuels their brain, and, for me, it’s just also a caring smile in the morning that gets their day started so they feel like they have been served.”Manna House can serve even more people in even more ways with their newly expanded building that reopened in July. Manna House’s board of directors raised $3 million to help the organization get more space to make more impact.”We bought the two buildings next door to us,” said Antonio Coffield, the executive director of Manna House. “The dining room expanded by 50%. We are now able to host 50 people at one time, whereas before, we could only host 25. We added a workforce development classroom upstairs. Some of the people were here before the renovations, and the building was in pretty bad shape. It needed to get a facelift, so this opportunity for them to walk in and have more bathrooms, more showers to use. They are super excited.”There’s much more than breakfast waiting inside Manna House, which offers showers, a day shelter, clothing closets, health screenings and workforce development workshops.”From where they are, we are going to help them be more self-sufficient,” Coffield told 11 News. “We want them to know that there are people that care about the community and care about them.”Waith feels that care. Though it all starts with breakfast, it certainly doesn’t end there.”I appreciate what they are doing in their service and how they are helping everybody out,” Waith told 11 News.
Manna House is celebrating its renovation and expansion that it said will help serve more people in need.
People line up outside of Manna House every morning before it opens at 8 a.m., anxiously awaiting a hot cup of coffee and a hot meal to get ready for a good day.
Carles Waith is one of about 100 people who get breakfast at Manna House every day.
“Everybody needs help,” Waith told 11 News. “It’s tough on everybody. We are all struggling. But if you come here, you at least get a decent meal, see people that you haven’t seen in a while.”
It’s something Manna House has been doing for 50 years to help people experiencing homelessness or struggling to make ends meet.
“It fuels their body,” said Kristin Fuscorowe, a volunteer at Manna House. “It fuels their brain, and, for me, it’s just also a caring smile in the morning that gets their day started so they feel like they have been served.”
Manna House can serve even more people in even more ways with their newly expanded building that reopened in July. Manna House’s board of directors raised $3 million to help the organization get more space to make more impact.
“We bought the two buildings next door to us,” said Antonio Coffield, the executive director of Manna House. “The dining room expanded by 50%. We are now able to host 50 people at one time, whereas before, we could only host 25. We added a workforce development classroom upstairs. Some of the people were here before the renovations, and the building was in pretty bad shape. It needed to get a facelift, so this opportunity for them to walk in and have more bathrooms, more showers to use. They are super excited.”
There’s much more than breakfast waiting inside Manna House, which offers showers, a day shelter, clothing closets, health screenings and workforce development workshops.
“From where they are, we are going to help them be more self-sufficient,” Coffield told 11 News. “We want them to know that there are people that care about the community and care about them.”
Waith feels that care. Though it all starts with breakfast, it certainly doesn’t end there.
“I appreciate what they are doing in their service and how they are helping everybody out,” Waith told 11 News.
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