In this paper I turn to the most basic aspect of human healing – feeding others. It begins with my first meeting with Hind in 1996. One evening I lost my way following a visit to a faith-based food bank project in a poor neighborhood in Cairo. After spending some time crisscrossing thorough the same rough and narrow unpaved alleys trying to find the right turn for downtown Cairo, I stopped to ask directions of a young woman I recognized from the project. “Pardon me. Where am I?” I asked. “You are in Egypt, yah hanem,” Hind replied. She offered to show me the way out if I gave her a lift home. Since then we have continued our conversation about care and food justice. This paper tells the story of Hind and the other volunteers who run a food distribution outlet in Cairo. The presentation is based on many years spent following their efforts and is an account about young women (some now much older) who incorporate food justice into ways of repairing and rebuilding lives. The women distributing food describe themselves as pious safety-nets who care for and feed the unfortunates. The presentation will explore how and why Hind and her coworkers began questioning why people struggle for food and what they did about it. The why was the absence of food in some people’s everyday life. The what was faith-based caregiving: the ideas and actions expressed individually and collectively about personal and societal life, about being a Muslim, about being a woman – about Islam, food and compassion.