Welcome To

Anna
Sudha

We provide 6000+ free meals to shelters every month

501c3 registered and EIN number: 87-3118285
Non Profit organization

Now Serving Breakfast

Check out our weekend chaat and dosa buffet!

OUR MISSION

Uniting Communities Through Food

What Do We Do?

We are a licensed kitchen run mainly by volunteers donating 6000+ meals monthly to shelters

We have two Flagship programs:

  • Shelter Feeding Program
  • Open Pantry Program

We sell vegetarian Indian food to fund these Programs

Where Do The Proceeds Go?

Under our Shelter feeding Program we have signed Memorandums of Understanding (MOUs) with Shelter House, Carpenter’s Shelter, and Apah. The residents of these organizations are the regular beneficiaries of our meals.

Open Pantry

We offer an Open Pantry System stocked with essential groceries and nonperishables such as rice, sugar, oil, flour, variety of beans, cereal boxes, pasta,
pasta sauce, chocolate milk, juice boxes, and soup boxes and many more items.
Most families visit us twice in a month to pick up what they need.

Anna Sudha’s Humble Beginnings

Nurturing Souls, Strengthening Communities

Anna means 'food' and Sudha means 'nectar of love'. Anna Sudha Community Kitchen was founded by Nupur Panjabi out of her home kitchen in early 2021 during the COVID-19 pandemic. She realized that the pandemic had significantly changed the food landscape in Northern Virginia and saw a marked increase in food insecurities. Unemployment was high. The lines at food banks were long, and grocery shelves were bare because of interruptions in supply chains. People had stocked up on shelf-stable groceries and were not getting fresh, healthy, nutritious meals. It was her dream to make freshly prepared food accessible to anyone who simply desired it.

Since then Anna Sudha rents a commercial kitchen in Dulles Town Center and has...

$85,000

Raised for our Community Giving initiatives

Engaged 300+ volunteers to help in our kitchen

Donated 80,000+ meals to shelters and needy.