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FOOD SHARING MINISTRY Soup Kitchens | Food Bags | How to Volunteer Twice a month the Moscow Protestant Chaplaincy distributes 200 bags of groceries. The average bag contains a frozen chicken, rice, sugar, and cooking oil. The recipients of the food bags are primarily foreign students and refugees. Many foreign students in Russia receive only a symbolic stipend of $5 per month, and during the school year it is difficult for them to supplement this with outside income. Because of their uncertain legal status, refugees also find it difficult to maintain a steady income. The food bags are a source of food that they can count on. The food bags also send an important message of love to students and refugees. To students the Christian community is saying that we care about their education. We want to provide help and encouragement so that they can complete their program of studies, eventually taking their knowledge and skills back home. To refugees we express our solidarity in their trying time of wandering the earth. We try to be a Christian family to those whose biological families are far, far away. Like any family we share in the fellowship of the table--both the altar table and the dinner table. We give thanks to God when we hear an Ethiopian refugee say, "MPC is my mother." Food Pantry- 200 bags of basic food commodities are distributed monthly to refugees who are referred by Equilibre, a local partner of UNHCR. These refugees are from Afghanistan, Iraq, former Soviet Republics, and countries of Africa. They may have large families, chronic medical conditions or extreme need. Food for biracial children- Mothers or guardians and their children receive basic food commodities from MPC at monthly meetings of Metis, a local charity. Often abandoned by their fathers, biracial children and their mothers experience severe discrimination. Mothers typically work in low paying jobs. The monthly food bags supplement meager diets.