Posted on 08/30/2019 6:27:17 AM PDT by COBOL2Java
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Chase Neyland-Square, a student at Port Allen Middle School in Port Allen, Louisiana, helps run "PAMs pantry" -- a closet filled with clothes, hygiene products, shoes and more for kids in need.
"My favorite part about helping with the pantry is getting types of clothes and sorting them out to give to various people," Chase told "Good Morning America." "It makes me feel good because I know that I can make a difference in my school."
Principal Jessica Major said the pantry idea was born from students pitching ideas about how they can help others at their school. At Port Allen, many students come from low-income households.
Major said there are students who don't have things like a nice outfit to wear at eighth grade graduation.
(Excerpt) Read more at goodmorningamerica.com ...
Read Marvin Olansky's "The Tragedy of American Compassion"
That’s great.
Churches, social groups, benevolent societies, and individuals (like this kid) have had a role in helping the needy for centuries. I think we generally see less of such behavior now because Big Government has stepped in to “help” everyone.
We do better when this becomes a DIY project.
This is REAL charity - personal initiative to help those in need.
Sorry...it IS a pity...
Some bureaucrat will shut it down.
Are those clothes cleaned after use before someone else wears them?
No reality is allowed. Lol.
I know a black guy who did this for men’s suits, so job seekers could have a professional appearance in their first job interviews.
Besides not feeding their own children now these same parent(optional(s)) are not clothing them also? Wow! Little Dems learn early on that they can/must depend on other for their basic needs and not their own parent(optional(s)).
Agree. One night of partying on the parents’ part can easily pay for a whole year of kid’s clothing. I’d garage sale for all our kids’ clothes and toys. $20 would cover a year’s worth of clothing and they were some of the best dressed kids at school. Kids grow so fast that many garage sale items still have store price tags.
Need a prom dress? Goodwill has them brand new from the dept. store racks for $12. Sell them the next year for a profit or enough to buy another $12 gown. Or 2-3 for friends who’s parents wouldn’t buy them one. When ours graduated, I donated all the prom outfits and regular clothes to the school nurse to use when needed.
There was a HS friend who’s grandmother had to buy her a prom dress. Her step mother got angry because the grandmother hadn’t bought the younger child who wasn’t related to the grandmother a prom dress. The step mother took the dress away and gave it to the younger girl. Thankfully, we had some extras so she could go to the prom. This was the same grandmother who didn’t know us from Adam but called out of the blue one day to beg us to keep an eye on the girl and ask if we could take her in if needed. Sad situation.
Many years ago I had a student, a college professor’s daughter, who was smart, pretty and as I was to find out kind. She donated some of her wardrobe she’d outgrown, to a girl in her class. This girl lived in a rickety trailer on the road that led to the county dump. She always smelled of smoke because they burned a lot of the trash. She was poor, not very pretty, and not all that smart. The kind girl stipulated that no one was to ever know where the clothes had come from. (I only found out because someone couldn’t keep a secret).
And to contrast the first girl’s kindness, her classmates deliberately chose the 2nd girl to be “queen of the Valentine’s dance”. They did this to try and humiliate the one they elected king. He was smart, handsome and popular. To his credit he danced with his ‘queen’ and refused to be embarrassed.
I remember the girl’s father coming into school, dirty, ragged and looking like someone from “the hills” and saying how happy he was that his daughter’s classmates showed how much they really liked her. Of course I didn’t tell him the truth.
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