Barbara Jackson has written from America; here is an extract -
'We distributed grocery boxes to 33 families this morning at the food bank. Half were single person families. Unemployed people or elderly. One clearly mentally disabled. They served 50 yesterday.
I was glad to be able to tell all our customers this morning that they could come to a big turkey dinner, free, at the soup kitchen, next door to the food pantry, tomorrow.
Discovered, as I should have known, that our customers do not read a newspaper to learn about such things and, it seemed, they do not go to church to hear such news.
Even after 30 years of working in the food bank I am still learning about the life of the poor.'
30 years ago when Barbara started the food bank it was intended as a temporary solution... here of course we have the Resto du coeur which always needs contributions, their grants having been cut. Sigh. See www.restosducoeur.org
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