Our mission is to provide free food and emergency housing assistance to students in need. Our job is to bring awareness to college officials, government authorities, student unions, faculty, and the public in general to the fact that the problem of college students facing food and housing insecurity is real, and the numbers are growing…
Mission
In the United States, it is our hope to bring free food to campuses across America to help financially struggling students with something to eat on their way to their next class, or to take home to cook for the week. It is our goal to address the issue of homelessness among college students in America by providing emergency shelter to college students and promote the creation of affordable dorms in campuses across the USA.
Vision
A Message from Our Founder
For the past few years H.O.S.T. has been providing support to students at Mesa college and the University of San Diego with free food pantries and emergency housing scholarships. With the closures of universities and live classes in the United States, due to the COVID-19 pandemic, our otherwise normal activities were shutdown. Still, a need presented itself for us to expand the scope of our services by helping the victims of the pandemic in Peru. The opportunity to help the poor and the needy in a place as far as Peru proved to be a huge task, but one that we embraced with faith and determination. With the help of Peruvian Marista alumni friends, we created a project called HOST Acción Marista 2020, that by the end of the year had donated close to 150,000 emergency meals, along with gas stoves and cleaning supplies to organizations, churches, communities, and soup-kitchens in Lima and Cuzco, Peru.
As life returns to normal in the USA, and universities plan to resume in-person classes, H.O.S.T. plans to return to its mission of helping American college students who struggle with food and housing insecurity while attending college. We also seek to build on the experience in Peru by continuing support for victims of the pandemic. This expanded vision includes the planning of an international post-pandemic project of American and Peruvian college students to build a better world based on friendship, cooperation, and the exchange of ideas and technologies to create a more prosperous world for generations to come.
Robert Arca President/CEO
H.O.S.T. USA
Our objective is to create chapters on colleges and universities across the United States of America to help eradicate food and housing insecurity among college students. We believe that college students may prove to be the best ambassadors in this endeavor; after all, these same students will be our leaders of tomorrow! We are confident that HOST USA will bring a modern approach and solution to a problem that has no place in the twenty first century in America.
Programs
From the creation of free food pantries to the purchase of a food truck that can visit all campuses in the region providing free hot meals to students in need, our programs are bound to address the issue of food, as a human right.
Our housing programs will focus on provide emergency shelters for homeless or couch-surfing students. Furthermore, our housing program envisions the creation of affordable dorms for students in need, where the cost is shared between the student, HOST, government, and private enterprises.
Contact us.
H.O.S.T.
PO Box 710751
San Diego, CA 92171
Call or Text us at +1 (619) 985-9210
Robert Arca Sr, Founder & CEO