It is very strange........the Feds provide most of the food for our local food bank. Tilapia from China, frozen veggies from Egypt.
Few of the people are thin. They never take canned veggies but chips are gone in a flash.
The underbelly of volunteering is you realize you really are not helping folks......just unloading trucks and moving boxes around
“ The underbelly of volunteering is you realize you really are not helping folks..”
I volunteered at a homeless shelter associated with the Church in college.
They’re 99% bums and bums by choice. Or just crazy people who really needed to be institutionalized.
In three years, we had exactly one family unit that had a weird triple hit of lost job, bad ex husband, and kids. Within a month, we had them cleaned up, safe, employed, and housed, and back in school, never to need help again.
The rest? Meh. Screw ‘em.