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Poverello Center
The Poverello Center, Inc. is a 501(c)(3) organization devoted to advocating for and providing a multitude of services to address and improve the health, well-being and stability of the homeless and under-served within Missoula, Montana.
==History==
On March 18, 1974, four women met at the Knights of Columbus Hall to cook nourishing bread, soup, and coffee for the homeless. For the first several years, the Poverello was run by nuns, though it is has since become a secular non-profit.
Until 1979, the soup kitchen seemed an adequate service. That winter Patrick Todd, Director of the Poverello Center, wrote of the increasing need to shelter people "alone in the night with no place to go." He wrote the poignant story of Humberto Roca, a man of Mexican descent who understood little English. He was on his way to visit his sister but ended up in Missoula, MT. His difficulty in walking made it apparent that he was suffering from frostbite. A subsequent visit to the local hospital resulted in amputation. The incident fueled Todd’s crusade to fill the need for emergency housing. The Poverello Center emergency shelter was opened on November 18, 1981. Over the course of the last thirty years, the Poverello Center has continued to identify and meet the needs of people living in poverty in its community.
The word "poverello" is an Italian word denoting "the poor one."
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