Recovery Cafés Lexington and Frankfort are grassroots, peer-led recovery community centers. We depend on people like you to be our partners in healing and love. By making a one-time or reoccurring donation, you help keep our community recovery sanctuaries alive, right here in the heart of the Bluegrass. Your donation directly supports Kentuckians recovering from addiction, mental illness, and the traumas of street living. Make a contribution today to build a better community for us all.

STONE SOUP CAMPAIGN

You may know the folk tale “Stone Soup” -- a story about war-weary soldiers who come to a small village tired and hungry. Finding no hospitality in the poor famine-fatigued village, the soldiers bring a pot of water and stones to a boil. As the stones “cook” the soldiers remark that the soup is good, but it could use a carrot, a potato, an onion, some meat, and salt. Curious about the culinary experiment, the villagers come to offer a carrot, then potato, then an onion, then meat, and salt, resulting in a tasty soup. Together the war weary soldiers and the famine fatigued villagers share in the joy and bounty of a delicious meal; together the soldiers and the villager’s overcome scarcity through sharing.

This year Recovery Café Lexington celebrates five years. We’re celebrating five years by preparing for the next five. Charitable “asks” are often presented with worry –“ there isn’t enough; we need your donation!” At Recovery Café Lexington we believe there is enough – we can overcome the worry and weariness of scarcity by sharing with each other.

Our stone soup initiative invites you and five of your friends to give $5.00 towards our goal of $500,000 by December 2025. We do not all have to gift a pot of ready-made soup. Each of us can bring our carrot, potato, onion, piece of meat, or some salt and from that sharing we can enjoy a bountiful feast.

Will you donate $5.00 today?  Will you invite 5 of your friends to donate? Can you throw in a carrot?