Anna Sudha Community Kitchens

Specific Need

The need for affordable meals is increasing beyond the homeless in our communities. People should not need to choose between buying food and paying rent. Our kitchen operates two programs to address this growing need.

Shelter Feeding Program - Under our Shelter feeding Program we have signed Memorandums of Understanding (MOUs) with Shelter House, Carpenter’s Shelter, and Apah. The residents of these organizations are the regular beneficiaries of our meals. We are donating more than 2,500 meals every month which has jumped to 6,000 since December 2023 owing to hypothermia.

Open Pantry Program - We offer an Open Pantry System stocked with essential groceries and nonperishables such as rice, sugar, oil, flour, variety of beans, cereal boxes, pasta, pasta sauce, chocolate milk, juice boxes, and soup boxes and many more items. We have more than 75 benificiary families visiting our kitchen twice a month.

Through our Pay What you Can initiative and being available on TOO GOOD TO GO we are enabling more neighbors to get meals with dignity.

Mission

Our mission is to provide healthy and economical food to all. Having access to affordable, freshly cooked food is a basic human right that many people do not have.

Anna Sudha in Sanskrit signifies ‘spreading the nectar of love through food’. We believe food is the best way to unite people and promote love.

By our service to the community, we aim to exemplify our 3 founding principles: Cooking, Community and Charity. We sincerely believe in ‘Vasudhaiva Kutumbakam’ - The world is our family.

Join our endeavor to move our world forward, one meal at a time.

Profile

We are a licensed kitchen run mainly by volunteers. Our kitchen is located in Dulles Town Center Mall in Sterling, on the lower floor, next to Macy's.

We donate 2,500+ meals monthly to shelters. We have two Flagship programs:

Shelter Feeding Program
Open Pantry Program

We sell vegetarian Indian food to fund these Programs.

Some of our notable achievements since our inception in November 2021 are

- 40,000 meals donated to shelters.

- Over 5,000 high school service hours have been verified.

Our efforts were recently recognized by Chair Phyllis Randall and Delegate Kannan Srinivasan.

The kitchen is becoming a lively hub for group volunteering. We get to witness families volunteering together every weekend in the kitchen. We are regularly visited by Church Groups, Corporate Groups, Organizations like Young Men's Service League, Girl Scouts and Boy Scouts.