For more than 60 years, Camillus House has provided material aid and hope to Miami-Dade County’s hungry and homeless.
The seed that became this ministry was planted in 1960 with a small act of kindness: Brother Mathias Barrett gave a hungry, newly arrived Cuban exile a bowl of corn flakes and milk.
In the more than six decades since, our ministry has flourished, bringing material help, hope, healing, community, and dignity to hundreds of thousands in need.
Today, as the largest and one of the oldest service providers caring for the homeless in South Florida, Camillus still provides more than 600 meals a day to the hungry. But that’s only the beginning.
Camillus House is now the most broad-based homeless services provider in our community, helping the poor and vulnerable not only with food and shelter, but with clothing, job-training, counseling, medical assistance, and other tools that help rebuild broken lives. We seek in all our works to keep alive the spirit of compassionate service that marked Camillus from the start.