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[fight4yourights]

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Feeding the hungry

[erkmetz]

One of the most interesting folks I met at common ground fair was Fred Jones, of the Anabaptist community that has houses in Smyrna, Kingman, Millinocket and Bangor. He said they help the poor by helping people who experience gaps in the social support system -- like a woman with a 7-y/o daughter who was about to be kicked out of the abused women's shelter because she had been there 45 days -- but needed a few days for her housing voucher to kick in. He said when they take in homeless people, they help them find a job and then insist that they use their first paychecks to start saving for their first and last month's rent on an apartment.
I'd like to meet these folks and find out more what they do.
I like to think that I help the poor every day by providing medical care, but it doesn't always seem like a person-to-person relationship if I stay remote and aloof in a authority-figure mode.
Gotta go -- time to empty the trash ;-)