Tag: southwest

Southwest: The People’s Kitchen, a Free Restaurant, Promotes Community Prosperity

January 20, 2023 Nadiyah Timmons

The People’s Kitchen, a free restaurant model, in Southwest Philadelphia was established in 2020 to address this growing need to fight food insecurity by offering free meals from their restaurant front.

Southwest: The Rewards of Helping a Community Grow

June 18, 2018 Brianna Cicero

Donna Henry loves the feeling of helping someone in a tough situation. It’s part of why she loves working for the Southwest Community Development Corporation. She first went to the Southwest CDC for a position

Kingsessing: African Cultural Alliance Pushes For Small Businesses

December 20, 2017 Angela Gervasi

As a young child in Liberia helping her mother and aunt in the kitchen, Nafisa Sillah stumbled upon her passion for cooking. “I would mess up the food but I would fix it, cook, cook,

Southwest Philadelphia: Local Churches Open Its Doors To The Hungry

May 16, 2017 Jack Einhorn

While it can be difficult to pinpoint the exact number of homeless individuals living within a city, the city of Philadelphia’s count as of January 2016 determined 705 people living within the city were entirely unsheltered. Local nonprofit organization Project

Southwest Philadelphia: African Cultural Alliance Seeks to Help

March 10, 2014

The African Cultural Alliance of North America (ACANA) has stood as a focal point in the Southwest Philadelphia community for the past 15 years. Founded in 1999, the nonprofit organization started out with the goal

Southwest: Training Program for Troubled Youth

February 17, 2011

For the past several days, students from the Southwest have been collecting signatures regarding the placement of the Philadelphia Training Program within the former M.A.B. Paint Factory, which is rumored to soon be turned into a prison.