WATERVILLE, Maine (WABI) – ”Here, we try to help one another,” Carla Caron, president of the Waterville area soup kitchen said.
From serving meals to operating as a warming center, the Waterville Area Soup Kitchen has become a staple in the community.
“We open at 8 o clock in the morning, we serve breakfast and people can be here all morning, they extend friendship to one another, we support each other,” Caron said.
Many of the patrons live at the homeless shelter in Waterville, with some struggling with substance use disorder.
“The people that are coming here, do not necessarily, it wasn’t planned in their lives. They had something that came up, that caused them to have a situation where they cannot afford food, that cant afford shelter….,” State Representative Bruce White (D-Waterville) said.
With the rate of the unhoused population increasing in Maine, Representative White says the last thing …