[Chat] Fwd: Food drive in Charles Village

[Stephen J Gewirtz]

On 9/4/2011 9:00 AM, Christian Wilson wrote:
>
> Steve:
>
> Would you please distribute this to all of lists and names you now 
> report to about your crime issues as it is very important so that 
> children in our community can get fed during the weekends.
>
> "Dear Neighbors:
>
> I learned a startling fact recently at Margaret Brent Elementary and 
> Middle School and that is 10% of all children attending that school 
> are homeless.  If we utilize the total population of students 
> attending the school it means that 27.8 students are living with 
> relatives, on the street and/or in automobiles at best without running 
> water and electricity.  This is in a neighborhood which is supposed to 
> be a fairly well to do neighborhood.  This cannot be tolerated and 
> something must be done.  We have a number of associations in this 
> neighborhood who can come forward and actually accomplish what we are 
> doing at St. John's United Methodist Church of Baltimore City.
>
> We have established under our Peace with Justice forum a plan where we 
> have adopted five families and we prepare two days of meals that do 
> not require refrigerataion and or electricity which we deliver to 
> Margaret Brent and which they pass on to children of the most dire 
> need.  We follow VIVA Houses plan of setting up basic meals for these 
> two days and have them delivered in back packs to the school on Friday 
> morning so that they can be distributed to the children when they 
> leave for the weekend.  Our school system does provide two meals a day 
> during the school week to these children, but then the weekend comes 
> and many go without eating all through the weekend.  If all of the 
> community associations, such as CVCA, AIA, Harwood, Old Goucher and 
> any that I don't know about would take a number of these adopted 
> children and provide food over the weekends, these children would come 
> to school ready to learn.  I am sure the same conditions prevails at 
> Barclay School as well and this is a wonderful way for the community 
> to come forward and provide this food for these children.  If you have 
> any questions about how this is accomplished you can contact me 
> directly and I will gladly advise you how St. John's United Methodist 
> Church of Batlimore City set up a plan to do this for Maargaret Brent.
>
> Let's make sure that no child goes hungry over the weekend. Thank you.
>
> Christian
>

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