Helping Hands of St. Louis Outreach Center
Helping Hands of St. Louis Outreach Center, located at 443 Sixth St., Toledo, Ohio, serves low income and homeless families and individuals. The outreach center includes a soup kitchen, food pantry and clothing center. Additional services include hygiene products, homeless kits and hot showers.
Since 1982, Helping Hands has served more than 1.5 million meals to people in need. An average of 350 meals are now served each day, Monday through Friday, through the generosity of local community members and businesses and through the dedication of our volunteer teams.
Our Mission
The mission of Helping Hands of St. Louis is to provide hot nutritious meals, groceries, clothing, hot showers and other social services for all who come to our doors. We strive to acknowledge the dignity of each and every person by assisting with a smile, an embrace, or a material or a spiritual need.
Our Philosophy
We welcome everyone who comes to our doors for a warm meal.We never ask questions of eligibility, religious affiliation or residency. We want to provide a refuge for those who have no place to go … who are hungry and looking for someone with whom to talk. We try to stress the importance of the person and the need for human dignity.
Know Someone Who is in Need?
Please contact Helping Hands for more information:
Helping Hands of St. Louis
443 Sixth Street Toledo, OH 43605
Phone: 419-691-0613
Fax: 419-697-4223
E-mail: helpinghands@bex.net
Read More about the Clients and Services at Helping Hands:
Bishop Daniel E. Thomas and volunteers from several area churches served a Christmas meal to 370 people at Helping Hands of St. Louis on... Read more
The hands at Helping Hands were busy as volunteers served Thanksgiving lunch to 500 people in need of a meal for the holidays. Lunch included turkey, cranberry sauce, mashed potatoes and gravy, candied yams, dressing, mixed vegetables and... Read more
Today, hundreds of Toledo residents lined up for a serving of Little Caesars pizza at Helping Hands of St. Louis. The pizza was prepared and cooked inside a semi-truck called the "Little Caesars Love Kitchen," which was parked outside the center's... Read more
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