a friend's visit to the soup kitchen
i found out from from a friend today that:
-midland has only one soup kitchen (knox) and one food bank (sally ann)
-the soup kitchen is open only one morning a week (tuesdays)
-it now serves over a hundred people on that morning
-it's been running it for 16 years, run mostly by retired women.
-there is also a soup kitchen in penetang
last week's midland mirror (sep 27) has an article on affordable housing in north simcoe. on page 5 it adds that in midland:
"252 people (174 adults and 78 children), who were identified as not having a permanent address, accessed the services of the housing support worker at Community Link's Housing Registry in Midland..."
"Last winter, the Out of the Cold program provided 716 overnight stays and served 737 hot dinners during the 113 nights it was open."
climate crisis, violence, soup kitchens, affordable housing -- it seems diverse and overwhelming, and i struggle to remember that at the core of it, it's all the same: building communities that care and sharing resources equitably.
-midland has only one soup kitchen (knox) and one food bank (sally ann)
-the soup kitchen is open only one morning a week (tuesdays)
-it now serves over a hundred people on that morning
-it's been running it for 16 years, run mostly by retired women.
-there is also a soup kitchen in penetang
last week's midland mirror (sep 27) has an article on affordable housing in north simcoe. on page 5 it adds that in midland:
"252 people (174 adults and 78 children), who were identified as not having a permanent address, accessed the services of the housing support worker at Community Link's Housing Registry in Midland..."
"Last winter, the Out of the Cold program provided 716 overnight stays and served 737 hot dinners during the 113 nights it was open."
climate crisis, violence, soup kitchens, affordable housing -- it seems diverse and overwhelming, and i struggle to remember that at the core of it, it's all the same: building communities that care and sharing resources equitably.