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South Bay Muslims deliver meals from mobile soup kitchen
By Lisa Fernandez
San Jose Mercury News
This summer, a group of Silicon Valley-based Muslims will serve all-halal meals to the hungry from a roving food truck — an effort that's the first of its kind in the Bay Area, perhaps in the nation.
The Bay Area chapter of the Islamic Circle of North America, or ICNA, will officially debut its yellow Mercy on Wheels truck today.?
Beginning in July, the truck, which cost about $35,000 to buy and retrofit, will be used to serve nearly 400 meals a month in San Francisco and Oakland, at a cost of an additional $45,000 a year, organizers said. All the funding comes through community donations.
"We're the first Muslim group to go mobile," said Obaid Siddiqui, president of the Bay Area ICNA chapter headquartered in Santa Clara. |
