OUR DAILY BREAD

Keyvetta is also a safe place and familiar face to all the guests that visit ODB, just like a lot of the staff. Keyvetta notices the apparent difference in their guests as they leave after eating a home-cooked meal and getting the rest they need at Our Daily Bread; it's very apparent to her that "A lot of the guests just want to talk." Taking up all of the space on the wall at the exit of Our Daily Bread is an assortment of significant frames, some of which are in honor and remembrance of the founder, Ruth "Cookie" Vogelpohl. Cookie passed away at the age of 75, and Our Daily Bread honors her work with a wall of their accomplishments as you walk into the building. Cookie was working in a part of Cincinnati called Over-the-Rhine when she noticed a man searching through the trash for a meal. Cookie then decided to make a change when she started a meal program at St. Francis's school kitchen that was hosted two times a week. After her numbers of attendees grew from 9 to 200, Cookie..

Also known as: Our Daily Bread Soup Kitchen and Social Center

Primary location: Cincinnati United States