Question

These facilities were organized and sponsored by churches or charities during the Great Depression in an effort to feed the homeless and needy.

Answer 1

Soup Kitchen is the correct answer.

Great Depression (1929-1939) was a period of global economic hardship marked by the increase of poverty and unemployment.  During the Great Depression, churches and charities organized Soup Kitchens in order to feed homeless people and those in need in an effort to diminish the impacts of the crisis.