So you’ve done your part to help Katrina’s victims. (You have, right?) And, now, as the pictures of devastation keep rolling in, it hits you:

The kind of poverty that kept many people from leaving New Orleans before floodwaters rose is more a fact of everyday life in this country — Boston included — than we’d care to admit.

But what can you realistically do about it? Short of feeling guilty about what you have and spending every free hour volunteering and putting all the city’s homeless up on your couch, that is. (If only.)

No such drastic measures necessary. You can start by having lunch. At Pressed Sandwiches — the quick-and-chic little lunch spots downtown and in Cambridge — that makes helping the city’s needy so darn easy.

And tasty. The menu of creatively stuffed panini includes sopressata and provolone with cherry pepper relish and grilled portabella mushrooms and herbed goat cheese with roasted peppers and mesclun. For dessert, there’s an incredible sliced brioche stuffed with chocolate and hazelnut spread.

The most delicious — and most important — part: All proceeds after expenses go straight to The Homeless Empowerment Project.

Finally: an efficient, simple, and daily way to help those in need. And it doesn’t require you to give up your life.

Or even your lunch hour.

Pressed Sandwiches, 2 Oliver Street, in the Financial District (617-482-9700); 736 Massachusetts Avenue, Central Square, Cambridge (617-864-9600 or pressedsandwiches.com).