The Cameco Community Kitchen officially opened Monday at the Saskatoon Lighthouse.
The kitchen will provide evening meals to those in need living in the downtown core on Mondays and Fridays.
Cameco has kicked in funding for kitchen upgrades and will provide employee volunteers to help serve meals.
Cameco CEO Tim Gitzel says the community kitchen won’t solve all existing problems but they hope it will help bridge the gap.
“We know the demand unfortunately outstrips the supply, as is often the case,” he says. “So this won’t solve all of the issues but it will help.”
Harry McLeod, who is from Stanley Mission, uses the services of the Lighthouse and he says an accessible supper program is greatly needed in the community.
“The main thing is the supper for the people that can’t make it into those places, there’s some people that are banned from the Friendship Inn and the Salvation Army,” he says.
The kitchen will also be used to teach cooking classes and life skills.