ABOUT US

What We Do

Through our Outreach Program we serve lunches Monday – Friday both on Roosevelt Avenue in Downtown Pawtucket and at Collyer Park in Pawtucket.  We also provide: sandwiches daily to Project WEBER/Renew for their Pawtucket and Providence offices as well as for their Outreach Team, sandwiches weekly to Progreso Latino for their Food Pantry Clients, dinner daily to Sanctuary House, a sober living program for adults in Pawtucket, Breakfast lunch and dinner 7 days per week to the folks who frequent the OpenDoors Warming/Cooling Center in Pawtucket, and a hot soup or meal for the Breadline program which is served at Cathedral Square in Providence.

We offer a well-balanced meal to all who need it. Everyone in need of a meal is welcome at the PSK.  The Pawtucket Soup Kitchen is a registered 501c3 organization.
 Concerned about growing poverty in Pawtucket, Mr. Ernie Marot, a retired chef at Providence College and a Pawtucket resident, founded the Pawtucket Soup Kitchen  (PSK) in 1992. Mr. Marot served as head cook and director of PSK until January 2010, when he retired at age 81. Because Mr. Marot had volunteered all his time at the Soup Kitchen,  there were no funds to hire an executive Director, and it proved  impossible to find another person to volunteer. For a while, it seemed that the Soup Kitchen would have to close its doors. 

 But community concern and widespread support motivated the board of directors to save PSK. An anonymous patron made a donation to cover an executive director’s salary. After a thorough search, the board hired Adrienne Marchetti, an experienced cook who had served as Assistant Director at Amos House and as Executive Director at The RI Donation Exchange. In 2010, Ms. Marchetti became the first full-time employee in PSK’s history.