Each year, as December’s cold settles in, a familiar tradition brings warmth to Kalamazoo’s unhoused community. On December 16, 2025, volunteers gathered at the Edison Neighborhood Association for the annual Souper Social Meal Prep with Kalamazoo Together Volunteers for the Unhoused, an event held on the second Tuesday of December.
The Edison Neighborhood Association, with help from local volunteers, partner with Kalamazoo Together to distribute meals directly to people living unhoused across the community.
PMN spoke with Adrienne Waller, Operations Manager at the Edison Neighborhood Association, who emphasized their attention to care and quality in the operation. “We’d like to do our soups from scratch because it’s nice and people have nice homemade soup.” Ingredients included donated bread, garden-grown vegetables, and turkeys from local partners…