The mission of Kirk Care is to embody compassion and address hunger and poverty by offering food assistance and emergency utility support to low-income families and individuals within the Kirkwood R-7 school district.
Kirk Care is a non-profit organization formed by the Kirkwood Ministerial Alliance. It is directed and staffed by lay people from the churches within the R-7 school district.
Churches, schools, individuals, and many civic organizations in the area contribute to Kirk Care with food and/or money. Kirk Care members take an active role in providing services to those in need for the communities of Kirkwood, Glendale, Warson Woods, Des Peres, and Oakland
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Kirk Care offers the community and congregations within the Kirkwood R-7 school district a proven process for helping our neighbors in need.