Who We Are
Our Story
When Covid-19 crept in and disrupted our personal and communal lives, we received stay-at-home orders. Our unhoused neighbors stayed at home, outside, directly facing multitudes of insecurities. While we started fighting for toilet paper, they continued struggling for survival. Homelessness endured with greater visibility.
As the impact of homelessness magnified, Eayikes, a collective manifesting social connection beyond physical touch, and Polo’s Pantry, a respectfully prominent mobile food pantry, joined hands. Together, we sought to address, replenish, and reallocate the displacement of resources— specifically food. Our intentions to proximate ourselves to homelessness and close gaps between them and us resulted in Home-y Made Meals (HMM).
Our Mission
HMM is a 100% people-powered initiative adapted to the safety measures required during Covid-19. Within the safety and comfort of their homes, volunteers from all around Southern California prepare, deliver, and serve homemade meals every day. Partnering with shelters and coalitions, we have moved past merely existing as a project. We are a community— a network of networks— a family founded and bounded by food.
By serving homemade meals to low-income communities every day, Home-y Made Meals seizes the power of food to nourish our unhoused neighbors, move people towards action, and synthesize tangible solutions supplanting segregation. We practice relational work in food justice, prioritizing accessibility and adaptability to protect the ones we serve and the ones serving.
Stand With Our Partners
Contributions are helping further our mission and the work of our community partners.
J-TOWN Action と Solidarity is a grassroots collective building community power in Little Tokyo. Our work is rooted in a history of activism and community care. We are driven by long standing connections to Little Tokyo as well as solidarity work with communities fighting inequitable development across Los Angeles. We stand with communities made most vulnerable by overlapping systems of oppression by showing up in action and in solidarity.
Off Their Plate provides an economic lifeline to COVID-impacted restaurants and feeds communities in crisis.
We are a North Orange County-based abolitionist organization made-up of neighbors, educators, workers, parents, and students working together to build sustainable decolonization programs for ALL of our community members.
Orange County Protests’ Community Coalition is a horizontally structured grassroots organization dedicated to promoting our goals of abolition and liberation of all colonized people through demonstrations, mutual aid, civic engagement, political education, community safety and legal advocacy.
St. Joseph Center’s mission is to provide working poor families, as well as homeless men, women, and children of all ages with the inner resources and tools to become productive, stable and self-supporting members of the community.
A network of care created meet our communities' immediate needs and build community among our unhoused and housing insecure neighbors across Mid-city and Palms in Los Angeles.
West Adams Mutual Aid is an all-volunteer grassroots coalition caring for the unhoused in CD 10.
Palms Action Collective is a group of neighbors that first came together during the pandemic in the interest of mutual aid, from organizing and maintaining the Palms Community Fridge, to providing outreach and support for our unhoused neighbors.
Fairfax Mutual Aid (FxMA) is a network of care formed to address our unhoused communities’ immediate needs across the Beverly Grove and Fairfax neighborhoods of Los Angeles. We recognize constituents living on the streets deserve the exact same resources, care and support as housed people.
We recover perfectly good food that's destined for landfills and deliver it to unhoused folks living in West LA instead. Email freefoodcollective@gmail.com to get involved.
Mutual aid collective organizing with the unhoused in the San Fernando Valley.
Alexandria House is a transitional residence and house of hospitality that provides safe and supportive housing for women and children in the process of moving from emergency shelter to economic stability and permanent housing. Located in the densely populated and ethnically diverse Mid-Wilshire area of Los Angeles, they also serve our broader neighborhood community by providing educational and enrichment opportunities for our neighbors as well as our residents.
