Mera Community Meals - Update 1

In addition to our posts on Facebook and Instagram, we wanted to share our updates here on our website!

March 19: Thank you to everyone who supported our community meal initiative thus far! We wanted to give a little update while continue to figure things out day by day. We sent out 280 meals on Wednesday. We’ve never prepared so many individually packaged meals at once. We needed a few extra hands to keep a small, efficient team. Thanks to your donations we’re able to compensate additional workers from other worker cooperatives and restaurants who were recently laid off and may not have the option of filing for unemployment. Your donations also allow us to continue paying rent to our friends Neopol (truly the best smoked fish and bacon in town and now they deliver!) Their big beautiful kitchen space allows us to cook while social distancing. We will keep you updated each day, we’re hoping to continue this as long as the need remains and we can do so safely while paying workers. In the meantime, keep supporting Baltimore restaurants! If you know folks in need, please reach out. Our sincere gratitude, the Mera Kitchen and Friends Team! 

Photo by our friend Giovanni Vargas, from the days before social distancing.