A Warm Meal
We cook in self-catering kitchens or in rented kitchens in the community. We haven’t taken a break in a week and continue to plan for the future because there is nothing like the feeling of contributing to the community you are a part of by helping those less fortunate.
Nobody deserves to go to bed hungry! Your donation counts! It helps us feed vulnerable people.
Who Benefits?
“O Masă Caldă” (A Warm Meal) has been operating since June 2013, when, in Cluj-Napoca, a handful of heartfelt people collected 100 lei, with which 50 hot meals were cooked, at the social canteen of Cluj-Napoca City Hall in the Museum Square. Gradually, we expanded our activities to other cities: Adjud, Bucharest, Bistrita, Constanța, Satu Mare and Zalău.
Our hot meals reach children in daycare centers run by other non-governmental organizations, residents of adult shelter centers, but also vulnerable, homeless people.
Because food is a basic need!
Get Involved!
The science of good deeds says that altruism is the antidote to stress! When you help your peers, the level of oxytocin – the love hormone – increases and are released endorphins – the molecules of happiness. The result? A general state of well-being, of happiness; we like our job more; our stress decreases; our life span increases and, last but not least, the desire to continue to do well arises! Join the #omasacalda volunteer community!
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O Masă Caldă Kitchens
The ”O Masă Caldă” communal kitchen is located on 21 December 1989 Blvd, in the venue received in 2018, for free use, from Cluj-Napoca City Hall.
Here they prepare, from Monday to Friday, between 11.00 and 15.00, around 250 hot meals, for:
- children enrolled in EveryChild Daycare Centers, Family Refound and The cover of the Mother of God,
- residents of Adult Social Emergency Centers (on Dragoș Voda Str. 36) and Temporary Accommodation (Oașului Str. 298)
- vulnerable, homeless people who come to Cipariu Square at 15.00 (their number varies between 45 and 90. Since we never know how many there will be, we prepare with a minimum of 100 warm meals.
O Masă Caldă Community Canteen in Satu Mare is located on Rodnei Str. no. 26 in the venue made available to the Association out of the kindness of the Greek Catholic Parish of St. Francis.
The work of compartmentalization and equipping with furniture and professional kitchen equipment was done from own funds. The venue has a spacious dining room where food can be served for 80 people/day, in two shifts, 40 at a time.
Here, it is cooked also in a catering regime for the beneficiaries of the Night Shelter and any other target group within the radius of the municipality or people in need from Satu Mare County, single elderly people, and large families with modest incomes.
The activity is carried out in partnership with the Adjud City Hall, at the social canteen, where, every Tuesday, 80-100 servings are cooked for elderly people, who cannot get around, families with a very difficult situation and homeless people.
The activity is partially suspended during the pandemic period, the team of volunteers here using any opportunity that allows them to bring joy to the vulnerable people!
Sfânta Filofteia Canteen. Every Tuesday, at 19.00, 90-100 hot meals prepared by O Masă Caldă volunteers are distributed to families with many children.
The activity concluded in July 2019, following the termination of the collaboration with the Association ”Filantropia Ortodoxă” Bistrita-Năsăud Branch!
Ominis Canteen Turnu Măgurele Str. nr. 17A. Every Saturday, at 15:00, between 60 and 100 hot meals are offered.
The activity was suspended during the pandemic period!
Ferentari Canteen, General School no. 136. Every Saturday, at 11.00 am, children who meet for sports activities with Valeriu Nicolae receive sandwiches prepared by our volunteers.
Collaboration suspended in March 2020!
In the space offered by the Church of St. John the Baptist, every Saturday, 45-50 servings are cooked.
Activity suspended in 2019.
In the canteen (Laboratory) of the ”Voievod Gelu“ Technological High School, every Saturday volunteers from Zalău cook at least 100 portions of warm food for adults and children from the C3 building of social housing, residents of Spicului Street, the “Alături de copii” Association Zalau, the Center ”Tinerețe fără bătrânețe” for elderly people.
The activity was suspended during the pandemic period!
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