@Fressa wrote:
They currently have a food bank drive. Check out David's page or see if it's listed in the Kitchen section. I had a message pop up when I ordered a pan the other day.
@Fressa
we have food bank drives in our area. Each area should do that and in this way, we know the food is reaching the needy of our own communites.
In our town, our Scouts,local HS band, Glee Club, Honor Society and the junior choirs collect cans of food and money for food bank/needy. Several churches participate. The college and university fraternities & sororoties and other clubs work toward feeding the needy through the sales of Christmas trees. One helps families who have lost loved ones to drunk/drugged driver accidents. One helps families who have lost loved ones in service to the country and another helps law enforcement. A sorority that I heard of was helping children born to drug-addicted parents. These projects teach these young people the horrors of what can happen to them through abuse, so it is a good thing they are going for others and themselves. Some help families who have very chronically ill wage-earners who can no longer support their famillies and buy Christmas gifts for them. Kids are ringing my doorbell every early Saturday morning for cans of food to give to the needy. I go grocery shopping in October specifically to stock up on canned goods so I have plenty for each caller. I donate monetarily to buy from the food bank which is much cheaper than going to the grocery store. Each group in which I participate has designated shoppers to shop at the food bank for the needy that we are serving. Our SS class takes up money each Sunday all year which is used to buy gifts (and maybe clothing) for needy families and especially children. We have a committee in our city who works in concert with local government personnel to locate those in need and which reports to the various churches and civic organizations and assigns families to each group. Our church also does gifts for Operation Blessing. If some do not want to or cannot go out and buy gifts and wrap them, a group of ladies in our church will take donations and use the money to purchase gifts and package them ourselves for Operation Blessing, the children in third-world countries. We have foreign missionaries who grew up in our church and who make requests for money so that they can give to the children who they are trying to reach or have reached, in order to give birthday or Christmas gifts. Many of us teach ESL and host a Christmas gift giving and luncheon for children of the parents who have participated in the classes. I give to Rescue Dogs and Service Dogs and recently adopted a cat. I support the library and give in order to help those children who do not have access to books and/or computers and serve on an auxiilary committee that helps provide scholarships for the arts. There are many, many ways in which you can give and serve and assure your time and money are well spent. I round up my dollars to give to American Legion, a very worthy organization. I don't always get to cook and serve and go out with the committees to greet the families and children as I once did, but my heart and contributions are there and I get to hear the happy tales of our club members who share the stories (often through tears) of the child who got a doll, little boy who got a coat, mother who got a dress, daddy who got some tools or grandmother who wanted a crock pot and the best of all is that they would have a turkey on their table this year and gifts under the tree. These stories are very heartwarming. I urge each of you ladies to participate locally in bringing joy to a home in crisis this holiday season. All that I do is $25 here, $10 there, $15 here and $100 there and $25, $35 and $80, maybe $100 once or twice or $200 at the end and throughout the year, and each week just $5 to the offering for the needy and just a little bit here and there throughout the year and you will not believe if 1000 people do it, how it adds up and the hours you put into helping are worth far more than the money you give. Manpower is needed so bad. Join a group that works with trafficked girls. Teach them how to play Canasta, how to bake a cake, how to sing a song. Just spend quality time with them and for those women who bring their precious children into those shelters, bring some little Golden books for the kids. Go to the Dollar Tree and buy some toys for that bright eyed little kitty that awaits adoption or the death sentence. You would be surprised what you can get with $25 at the Dollar store or $35 at Big Box stores for precious little homeless animals.
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