Saturday, September 25, 2010
Can you donate to a Food Bank today?
The demands on them increases daily and they need your help. Feeding America, formerly known as Second Harvest is a national charity that works with over 200 food banks to fight hunger in America. You can donate to them or through them find a group local to you. And if you are short of cash but have some time on your hands, they always need volunteers.
Bob Herbert looks at why your help is needed.
Bob Herbert looks at why your help is needed.
The Great Recession has long since ended, according to the data zealots in their windowless rooms. But it is still very real to the millions of men and women who wake up each morning to the grim reality of empty pockets and empty cupboards.Or, if I make quote from Stephen Colbert, "The King will reply, 'I tell you the truth, whatever you did for one of the least of these brothers of mine, you did for me.'"
Wallingford is nobody’s definition of a depressed community. It’s a middle-class town on the Quinnipiac River. But the number of people seeking help at Master’s Manna is rising, not falling. And when I asked Cheryl Bedore, who runs the program, if she was seeing more clients from the middle class, she said: “Oh, absolutely. We have people who were donors in the past coming to our doors now in search of help.”
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