United States

Where: San Francisco, California

What we are doing: 

Partnering with The Martin de Porres House of Hospitality: San Francisco faces interconnected challenges of poverty, addiction, and homelessness, with recent 2026 counts estimating over 8,000 unhoused individuals.

A longstanding local institution, the Martin de Porres House of Hospitality has provided hot meals, clothing, showers, hygiene kits and other valuable services to the local San Francisco community for over 55 years. Martins is an all-inclusive, community-led collective that is run entirely by volunteers.

Every month, Sufi Service volunteers assist at Martins by cooking and serving hot lunches to over 200 guests, and by donating clothing and hygiene kits.

Protecting Youth at Risk with the Precita Valley MNC: The Mission Neighborhood Centers of San Francisco provide a wide range of facilities and support to at-risk children in the Mission neighborhood of San Francisco. Sufi Service volunteers assist the MNC’s Precita Valley Community Center with donations of children’s clothing, and occasional hot lunches.

How You Can Help
For more information please contact us: sanfrancisco@sufiservice.org.

Where: Seattle, WA

What we are doing: 

Blessed Sacrament Food Program- We regularly support the Blessed Sacrament food program. During a recent service day, we served 280 hot indoor meals and prepared 421 take-out meals for homeless and vulnerable individuals of all ages. We were grateful for the chance to move among the tables while clients were eating—offering drinks and desserts, and responding to personal requests. These moments allowed us to engage in genuine conversations, honoring the dignity and humanity of each person we serve.

Facing homelessness- We volunteer with Facing Homelessness, an organization devoted to seeing and valuing our unhoused neighbors by providing warm meals, snacks, clothing, camping gear, haircuts, toiletries, social services and other essentials.

Teen Feed - We support Teen Feed, which offers nutritious meals and compassionate community to Seattle’s unhoused youth ages 13 to 24, serving up 75 meals nightly.

We have found that listening and being present is an expression of kindness, and every interaction reminds us that we all live better when we give and receive love.

Where: Santa Fe, NM

What we are doing: 

Bienvenidos Outreach Program – Bienvenidos has provided a food pantry and popular holiday gift program to citizens of Santa Fe since 1989. This year, Sufi Service Committee volunteers generously sponsored 48 children for Christmas gifts. Also, household items and warm clothes were donated to Bienvenidos, and some warm jackets were donated to the Santa Fe Indigenous Center.

The Sufi Service Committee Santa Fe Farm Project

Through greenhouses at our local center, SSC volunteers cultivate and harvest a variety of fresh vegetables year round, which we donate to the Santa Fe Indigenous Center.

Community Food Distributions- Some beautiful carrots from the native seeds given to us, tomatoes and chiles from autumn, and a bit of lettuce were brought to the Santa Fe Indigenous Center's monthly food distribution.  We have started a non-GMO and organic crop of carrots as seedlings.

Greenhouse Update - Growing organic in the winter has its challenges for a crop to thrive even in a greenhouse: a warm enough soil temperature and PH, climate control, venting and air movement, ample light, etc.  In late December stacked seedling tray shelving were filled with seeds of radishes, bunching onions, spinach, carrots, beets, cilantro, and leeks.

Planting update: Two of the outside garden tents are sheltering lettuce beautifully, even with the below freezing temperatures. The herb garden is pretty much dormant until the spring, but there is some parsley, Chinese cabbage, Romanesco, kale, and bunching onions are surviving in the other garden tents.

Where: New York City, NY

What we are doing: 

St. Luke Church Closet Project Collaboration- Our partnership with the St. Luke Church Closet Project continues to flourish. Each time we have served Persian cuisine, our food and presence have been warmly embraced by the community. In a gesture of support, the church now pays for and handles the shopping for our grocery list, ensuring everything is ready for us to prepare in their kitchen.

Most recently, our volunteers cooked and served a traditional Persian chicken stew (Khorok) to 70 refugees and neighbors in need in the West Village. Beyond the meal, the St. Luke staff shared that our group’s presence has brought a new sense of home and joy to the entire project. Because of this success, we have been invited to continue serving every other month.

Soup Kitchen at Xavier:- We serve at the welcome table (Soup Kitchen) at Xavier. The welcome table serves an average of 1,000 hot meals every Sunday. This is an ongoing project that we are participating in the last Sunday of the month. It is always joyful to serve people in person and have conversations with them. We plan to increase our participation to an additional Sunday with preparing sandwiches.

How You Can Help
For more information please contact us: newyork@sufiservice.org.

Where: Los Angeles, CA

What we are doing: 

Collaboration with Hope the Mission (HTM) -  HTM leads the fight against hunger and homelessness in California, offering immediate aid and long-term solutions.

Sixteen years ago, they opened their first convalescent center near the Los Angeles Khaniqah for those recovering from hospital stays. HTM has since greatly expanded, launching tiny home projects and serving over 10,000 meals daily across Southern California. Their intake centers provide essential services like showers, housing support, medical/dental insurance, fresh clothes, and bus passes. They also offer recovery programs and specialized shelters for women, youth, and families, all powered by a dedicated, faith-based team.

Sufi Service Committee volunteers in Los Angeles were invited to a tour of their facilities, and were delighted that people without a home could finally go somewhere to convalesce after leaving the hospital.

We volunteer once a week and help with the food preparation for their daily meals at their kitchen facilities in North Hills, CA. Chefs work with the food donations from various organizations to create menus and meals, and we help them prepare anything from pie crusts to pizzas, sandwiches, cookies, empanada shells, quiches, etc..

HTM also does fun community awareness events. LA Sufi Service volunteers participated in their record braking event to prepare 250,000 meatballs in one day, to feed the homeless.

Where: Houston, TX

What we are doing: 

In collaboration with Cy-Fair Helping Hands (CFHH)- This autumn, the Sufi service community in Houston continued its service partnership with Cy-Fair Helping Hands (CFHH) to support homeless and disadvantaged families across the Greater Houston area. Each month, volunteers helped prepare food boxes, load groceries into clients’ cars, and distribute bread, produce, and other essentials to more than 120 families.

Non- perishable food drive - In October, we also launched a new non-perishable food drive to help CFHH prepare for its annual Thanksgiving Food Box event. By mid-October, the Houston Sufi Service community had collected over 600 pounds of food, with donations continuing through November. These contributions will support CFHH’s goal to provide holiday meal boxes for more than a thousand families in Greater Houston

Where: Denver, CO

What we are doing: 

Augustana Lutheran Church- Our volunteers have joined an Action for Neighbors initiative to collect and assemble personal hygiene supplies for individuals displaced by fires and other events.

Friends of St. Andrews soup kitchen and food pantry – Located in Aurora, this 40-year-old initiative provides 250 daily lunches and multi-day food baskets to local homeless and immigrant populations. Beyond nutrition, the center offers mail collection, hygiene supplies, and essential clothing. We help in all aspects of collecting and sorting donations, preparing and serving the food, and serving the guests that come.

We are happy to be growing a network of friends and family who also contribute in various ways to Friends' mission. 

How You Can Help
Please contact us at denver@sufiservice.org, or 303-956-9546 for more information or to become involved.

Where: Boston and Cambridge, Massachusetts

What we are doing: 

What We Are Doing: The Sufi Service Committee of Boston organizes volunteers in the local community to help the needy in many different areas including food, clothing and other services. Many volunteers are passionate about what their experiences have meant to them:

Willingness to Help Others without Expecting Anything in Return

Arriving at the homeless shelter, I was heartened to see an abundance of volunteers ready to lend a hand.  It was inspiring to witness the camaraderie that formed as we worked together. Seeing everyone so joyful and happy, I realized that the willingness to help others without expecting anything in return is what brings happiness to this group. The spirit of giving radiates joy and is a beautiful reminder of how acts of kindness enrich not only those we serve but also ourselves.  I carried with me the deep understanding that these acts of kindness, no matter how small, ripple outward, creating a more compassionate world.   - Mitra

A Liturgy of Service

In the quiet rhythm of Sunday morning, I found myself immersed in the sacred choreography of preparation. The kale and spinach, emerald and resolute, whispered resilience. Cucumber and tomato, crisp and sun-kissed, offered their brightness to the bowl. Chickpeas—humble, golden spheres—rolled gently into place, softened by lemon’s sharp caress and olive oil’s silken embrace. Salt and pepper, like memory and mystery, stirred the whole into something nourishing. The salad was a communion of earth’s offerings arranged with care and intention. The warmth and richness of a slice of beef lasagna when shared in service becomes sacred. In this cycle of preparing, I felt the pulse of something eternal. A rhythm of care. A liturgy of service. -Vanessa Costigan

NO ONE CAN DO EVERYTHING, BUT EVERYONE CAN DO SOMETHING!

How You Can Help
For more information please contact us at boston@sufiservice.org. You may also send contributions via PayPal to: Mo Nooraee Sufi Service Boston