Showing posts with label food stamps. Show all posts
Showing posts with label food stamps. Show all posts

Tuesday, January 7, 2014

Farewell to a Rare and True Friend

We just learned that one of the few people who always believed in our project, Trevor Vonk, died of a heart attack last night. He was just 57.

Trevor was a true friend with a great sense of humour, and knew more details about more Hollywood movies than anyone we've even heard of. He was going to join the project as CFO when we begin operations next month.

Replacing him will be close to impossible.

Good night, dear friend. You will be missed and remembered...

Thursday, December 12, 2013

Homelessness on the Rise, SNAP cuts adding pain

http://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-mayors-homelessness-20131212,0,5321182.story#axzz2nI7Rl3Nk
A new survey says more than 20,000 people are homeless, in LA alone. Over 2,000 of them are under 15.

The SNAP / Food Stamps program is due to be cut by more than $4-billion, and the recent Budget deal by Congress means millions of people who have been unemployed for more than a year will lose their benefits right after Christmas.
So it's about to get a lot worse.

To be faced with a problem I know we can fix, and still be denied the means to even vaguely address it is frustrating to the point of incoherence...

Friday, November 8, 2013

Iowa Students Fight Local Hunger


http://qctimes.com/news/local/education/article_f3058856-9dbd-5b9b-b297-eec126b464ea.html

Students in Iowa have just collected over 520,000lbs of food. Thanks to them, low-income families in the area will have a decent meal every day for about three months.

The Students have been doing this every year since 1986. So the question is this..

Why is it still up to them??