This paper shows the importance of the work of individual charities in feeding the women and children of soldiers mobilized during the First World War, and the poorest ones among them in particular. Although the associations worked with the permission of the Royal Land Government and in cooperation with the City Government, the burden of catering to an ever- -increasing number of users for the most part rested on a small number of individuals in a few associations during the fi rst two years of the war. This was later reduced to a single charity and one man – Šandor A. Alexander and “Nourishment”.