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ELKHART, Ind. - In this job-starved city where President Barack Obama last month made a public appeal for his economic stimulus plan, hundreds of volunteers — and an agency that specializes in handing out food — worked together Tuesday to feed 5,200 hungry families.
Roughly 300 local volunteers worked with Feed the Children to distribute more than $2.1 million worth of food at Concord Mall as part of the nonprofit relief organization’s “Feeding Americans Emergency Caravan.”
The caravan of semi-trailers is visiting small cities and towns across America hit hard by the economic crisis. No area in Indiana has been hit harder than Elkhart County, where the jobless rate skyrocketed to 18.3 percent in January.
Residents who have been facing tough times eagerly picked up free canned goods, baked goods, candy and even Avon products.
Larry Jones, the founder and president of Feed the Children, was at the event, as were televangelist Joel Osteen, pastor at Lakewood Church in Houston, and his wife, Victoria.
Cars are lined up on the north side of the mall and on U.S. 33, waiting to pass by the several stations where families can pick up a box of food, personal care items, frozen fish and additional products.
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I never thought I would see that in America.
ReplyDeleteYou know, the Emergency Management Agencies were mandated in 2007 to have a, I think they call it a "pod" plan. It is a centralized location where people can drive through and get supplies, I thought it was going to be for disasters, natural not economic.
Its Sad and depressing to see this...But don't campare to the rest of the world... its not the same.
ReplyDeletePeople should sell their cars before they they turn to this.... Their big trucks can feed them for atleast 6 months not including the cost of gas... think about it
It is most certainly a depression. Unemployment is in closer to 20% not the 8% that the govt says it is.
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