I'm looking for a way....

When I decided to help my neighbors it was because I got angry, and because I saw a need. I live in a large apartment building, and there are several low income families living here....so much so that Salvation Army does a regular food delivery for them once a month.

I saw a sign posted, three years ago, that said Salvation Army would NOT deliver food during the months of November and December, because all they were doing was ONE meal...for Thanksgiving and Christmas. I don't know why that upset me so much...but I tried to imagine living for an entire month on ONE Thanksgiving dinner and $23 worth of food stamps, which is all some of them get.

I started going to my local food pantry once a week JUST during November and December, and sharing the food with ALL my neighbors regardless of their income. I even had help from my church, at first.

Last year, my church people stopped helping me. THIS year I am stubbornly doing it by myself. There is a lot less food, because I can only fit so much in my car...but I refuse to quit. And my wonderful neighbors have gathered round me and I now have an entire crew of volunteers to help me carry the food into our building and unpack and arrange all of it, for a weekly "free groceries day".

I am telling you this story so that you can SEE the opportunities to help all around you. You don't have to be part of a volunteer program if you don't want to be. Find and create your OWN opportunities!!!

I don’t know where you’re from, but justserve.org might be of use. The site offers all these different ways of helping people; from helping the homeless to writing to elderly people in homes, or cleaning parks and working with animals.

Local volunteer work, food shelters, anything like that

What I do is let people vent to me or talk to get their minds off things. Find your special gift & use it to help others. We all have ways to do it

you could volunteer somewhere or else just know your tax dollars are helping people

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