Burrito Project is a group of friends that feeds the hungry and homeless in cities around the world, encouraging people "to get together with friends and build burritos to take to the streets". Anyone can start a Burrito Project and the organization encourages everyone to help feed the hungry in their local communities.
The first Burrito Project was The Mission Burrito Project in San Francisco, which delivered "free, organic, vegan burritos to the homeless one night a week."
It was started in 1996 by Noah D and was a group effort of the local graffiti and hip hop community, primarily the ATEAM and ESL crews.
In December 2006, The Burrito Project won the
Myspace
Myspace (formerly stylized as MySpace, currently myspace; and sometimes my␣, with an elongated Whitespace character#Substitute images, open box symbol) is a social networking service based in the United States. Launched on August 1, 2003, it w ...
Impact Award for
poverty
Poverty is a state or condition in which an individual lacks the financial resources and essentials for a basic standard of living. Poverty can have diverse Biophysical environmen ...
relief.
Burrito Project : First MySpace Impact Awards Recipient
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See also
*Food Not Bombs
Food Not Bombs (FNB) is a loose-knit group of independent collectives, sharing free, usually vegan and vegetarian food with others. The group believes that corporate and government priorities are skewed to allow hunger to persist in the midst of ...
References
External links
Burrito Project Myspace Page
http://www.myspace.com/burritoproject Mission Burrito Project Soundcloud page]
Hunger relief organizations
Children's charities based in the United States