[ Sign up for our Health IQ newsletter for the latest coronavirus updates ]Mucci says about 100 volunteers and staff usually prepare and serve meals to the homeless and underhoused, but fewer people are available to help during COVID-19.She says the mission has been a mainstay in Vancouver’s impoverished Downtown Eastside for 80 years and served its first Christmas dinner to people in the neighbourhood on Dec.
25, 1940.Mucci says the charity hopes to resume its large celebration with a live band at its main location next year, but for now is trying to meet the needs of as many people as possible.“We’re serving the really delicious turkey dinner with some goodies like pie and chocolate,” she says, adding socks, oranges and water are also.