Sisters of the Road

Cafe hot meals/barter program: Sisters of the Road cafe provides low cost meals to people who are experiencing homelessness or have low incomes, tuesday through saturday, 10:00 am to 3:00 pm. the cost of the meal is $1.50, which may be paid for in cash, with the Oregon trail benefit card, a meal coupon, or with credit earned by working through the hot meals/barter program in the cafe. Meals are served free of charge to those who are unable to pay and unable to work due to age, health, or parenting responsibilities. Through community partnerships, the cafe is able to serve the freshest food possible and become more sustainable in all of our practices. Since the beginning of pandemic, however, the cafe has been opened intermittently. Barter work has been suspended since march 2020 to prevent the spread of covid-19 which is why meals were made free of charge. We continued to serve the same homecooked meals with 40% fresh produce/salad with vegan, vegetarian options alongside few more different drink options and snacks.

Our systemic change team develops programming that seeks to address the root causes of poverty and houselessness. We are grounded in the understanding that people from our customer community should be leading this work in economic justice. We provide folks a space and the autonomy to take on these leadership roles. Our programming includes campaign, coalition, and food justice work. Active campaigns include: right to rest act legislation, eviction representation for all, esd audit response participation. We continue our participation in the following coalitions: stop the sweeps, portland harbor community coalition, village coalition, wisdome of the elders, welcome home, and western regional advocacy project. Our food justice programming continues with our fresh change partnership with the portland farmers market.