TASK educates Trenton's most needy

The Trenton Area Soup Kitchen (TASK), a private charitable organization, has been serving Trenton's most hungry and impoverished since 1982. Providing hot meals five days a week for anyone that comes to its doors, TASK is often the last stop for the homeless and working poor before starvation.However, TASK does not just feed people. Having recognized a lack of basic skills in its community, TASK launched the Adult Education Program in 1992. The program provides tutoring in basic literacy, math, computer skills and GED preparation. Today TASK's Adult Education Program, with its 40 volunteer tutors, serves at least 70 students.

Mercer's Documentary Photography class (PHO-251), led by Professor Michael Dalton, provided The College Voice with these images. The class is doing a semester-long project on TASK which will culminate in a website devoted to the organization and its engagement with the community it serves.