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...year and a half ago, Lee Hourhian found a way to help the increasing numbers of homeless in Cambridge who were the victims of institutional cutbacks...
...Hourhian, who owns the Keenebunk Company--a private catering company which serves the Harvard Divinity School--founded a soup kitchen to provide a healthy meal for more than 100 homeless people every Tuesday night...
...started the program one-and-a-half years ago in order to give back to the community and to help people who don't get help," Hourhian said. "I saw people getting let out of institutions because of cutbacks and saw how wasteful throwing away food from [the Divinity School cateteria] was, so I decided to start the kitchen...
Today, about fifteen students from the Business and Divinity Schools and the College volunteer to help run the soup kitchen each week. Hourhian emphasized that the program would not be the same without the Harvard students, whom she calls the "main-stay" of her program...
...Hourhian said that she can always use more volunteers. "They can help out by baking cookies or setting tables or placing flowers," she said, adding that volunteers are particularly scarce when the area colleges are not in session...