Serato's nonprofit has grown from feeding kids to providing affordable housing assistance and job training to underprivileged and homeless families throughout Southern California. Serato and his staff will be handing out food, groceries, and toys at a drive-by food distribution event at 2 p. Monday at the Anaheim White House in Anaheim. Anyone who is food insecure is encouraged to drive by and pick up food.
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It was your mother, Caterina, who had the idea to start cooking for the kids, right? On April 18th, , I went to the Boys and Girls Club of Anaheim, a small place where underprivileged children used to go. It was 4 in the afternoon. I met a boy, he was 7 years old, and he was eating potato chips.
The director told me that the boy was a motel kid: he was living in a bedroom in a motel, in a place where used to live and hang around drug dealers, drug addicted, prostitutes. So, in the motel room there was no kitchen, so his mom couldn't cook for him. My mamma, Caterina, said, "Bruno, why don't we bring them a hot meal tonight, even just a pastasciutta? And so it started: now it's been ten years since April 18th , every day, seven days a week.
In March we celebrated the one million meal we served. Now we are close to feed 1, children a day. We are also in 23 locations in Orange County, California: in 14 cities, but we won't stop here. We also have people who are inspired from what we do. I have to thank my mother Caterina, she's the one who had the idea to feed children with pasta that day. She deserves every award that I ever received in my life. She's the one who taught me that the best way to fight hunger is to give a little bit of pasta.
She's the number one. Also, I have to thank the journalists, tv stations, CNN, ABC, Fox, you and all the others who ask for interviews, because through interviews I can inspire people all over the world. I have a message: with a little bit of pastasciutta we can take care of all the starving children all over the world.
With a little bit of pasta we can help people in poverty, or people starving. I also have to thank the staff behind me, the customers, because they help me keep this tradition.
We couldn't survive without donations. I considered stopping, because it costed me a lot of money, and many people started to donate. The donation to Caterina's Club helped me going on and to constantly increase the number of kids we help: because we started with one kid, then two, then one hundred, then five hundred, seven hundred, and now we have almost 1, kids. We also started a new project, called "Welcome Home Project".
It started a couple of years ago when I realized that many of the families lived in a motel room. There are also good American families who live part of their lives in motel rooms, they lost their jobs, they lost their houses These people have been through very difficult situation in their lives. When they find a job, if after 6 months they have a steady income, we give them enough money to cover the first and last month's rent, plus security deposit, to get out of the room and go to an apartment.
Until now, we helped 90 families, people. They can go to our website www. If they can't do donations they can do cook plate of spaghetti and give it to one poor person in their own town. If everybody does that in their own city, in their own town, in their own country, we can take care of people all over the world.
You started in What is the future of Caterina's Club? Now we're looking to do a teaching class, so kids can learn something about hospitality skills, and find jobs: working at restaurants, become chefs, working at hotels, study to work as hostess, waiters We use many Italian products of course, we have an Italian menu: but we use everything, because if I get a donation for the children I'm not going to say no if it's not an Italian product.
Spaghetti with tomato sauce, or with oil and garlic.
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