For the first time, NJHN has signed up to volunteer at the Elijah’s Promise Community Kitchen on Saturday, June 13, from 9:00-11:30 AM. The address is: Promise Culinary School, 211 Livingston Ave, New Brunswick, NJ 08901. We’re hoping to have a group of 15 volunteers. To join us, RSVP below by June 9. If you later need to cancel, please let us know as soon as possible.
Elijah’s Promise operates a community soup kitchen, culinary arts school, mobile food truck, and connects low-income individuals and families with social and health services.
We’ll be working in the kitchen, prepping food for meals for their emergency meals program. This generally consists of slicing and dicing produce and traying up food. Watch this video to see what our work will look like.
If you have an NJHN shirt or hat, please wear it!
We must adhere to kitchen safety and sanitation rules:
1) Wear ankle-length pants that are not overly baggy.
2) Wear closed-toe, closed-heel, and anti-slip shoes, (e.g., sneakers). We’ll be on our feet the entire shift.
3) Long hair must be secured and pulled away from the face. If possible, please wear a baseball cap.
PARKING: We’ll enter through the side door off the parking lot. There are a few parking spots in the lot behind the building. Carpooling is recommended. Volunteers can double park and block in the other vehicles as long as you don’t mind possibly having to move your car to let others out while they are here. Additional parking is on Livingston Avenue, but the side streets are by permit only. Follow street signs to prevent tickets.
We must inform them if anyone in our group has any major food allergies to prevent any health risks while working in the kitchen, so please let us know. Volunteers must be at least 16 years old and anyone under the age of 18 must be accompanied by an adult.
Published 5/11/26