Park West has generously agreed to have a food drive to replenish ECCO's pantry shelves. Pinckney is also doing their drive and my reply was "lets do both" and Todd and Addie said, "No, lets just do Pinckney REALLY well." I agreed with Addie's desire.
However, if you aren't participating right now with Cario Campus' food drive on behalf of ECCO, join Park West's drive. Grocery bags with attached lists should be on your front porch this week. If not -- check with your HOA Board members ...
Drop off your bag of food to Southern Community Services at 3301 Salterbeck St., Suite 201, on Monday November 16 through Thursday November 19 from 8:30am to 5:00pm.
Questions: Call Amanda Rodenberg at 971.5096.
Any donation will be appreciated. The items below are most needed:
However, if you aren't participating right now with Cario Campus' food drive on behalf of ECCO, join Park West's drive. Grocery bags with attached lists should be on your front porch this week. If not -- check with your HOA Board members ...
Drop off your bag of food to Southern Community Services at 3301 Salterbeck St., Suite 201, on Monday November 16 through Thursday November 19 from 8:30am to 5:00pm.
Questions: Call Amanda Rodenberg at 971.5096.
Any donation will be appreciated. The items below are most needed:
- Tooth Paste
- Pet Food
- Canned Pasta
- Bath Soap
- Candy
- Grits (2lb)
- Bath Soap
- Juice
- Shampoo
- Chips
- Ketchup
- Cookies
- Mayo
- Jello
8 comments:
Candy, chips and cookies are "most needed?" You would think if people are being requested to donate food that a list of canned staples would be in order and not garbage. Pet food? If people are in such dire straits that they can't afford food for themselves, they shouldn't have a pet. Common sense 101!!
I completely agree with your comment. Now that I've taken nearly a semester of a nutrition class ... I find this as a food pantry list to be unacceptable.
In fact, I volunteered for a different "nutrition provision" panty last month.
They are extremely careful about their pantry and read all labels before accepting canned/boxed products. I was asked to do a project in changing their "wish list" of FOOD items (of course personal care items are critical too) into a wish list of "label-approved" health choices.
I was so impressed and happily agreed to do that work. I won't purchase candy, chips or cookies et al for food pantrys ...
I should add that I am a big ECCO fan, have volunteered at their organization and always participate in their food drives.
I don't recall seeing such a list like this one in the past. My only advice is to provide the personal care items as requested and replace the junk with canned vegetables et al.
Or follow the list to the "T." I don't mean to dissuade residents from participation in this food drive!!!!!
My personal feeling is that there are already PLENTY of welfare and entitlement programs in place that I am sure each recipient of this food drive is already participating in. And then some. Without elaborating, I have a pretty good idea who will be standing in line for the freebies when this project is complete. They can sniff out "free" from miles away. The same ones that blow all of the little cash they do have on smokes, drug and booze, but then beg for free food. Or the ones that show up at a free "homeless" Thanksgiving dinner line with a bluetooth receiver strapped on their head with 15 kids in tow.
No thanks, count me out!
I appreciate that you speak your mind and honestly many people feel that way.
ECCO, like a large number of charitable organizations, is experienced, savvy and screens clients so as not to facilitate and encourage existing problems.
I've known former employees and they don't want to be taken advantage of anymore than you or I.
While what you describe exists in our world, reputable charities function in an open and fiscally responsible manner. If the organization fails to do so, or quits functioning appropriately, their base of community support and funding fizzles away pretty quickly. One article in the P & C and it goes down quickly if justified ...
Having said that, I don't like their list and will adapt it. The candy could be for a special holiday project. If so, they fail to note it.
At the end of the day ... all I have is what I've given away.
As a side note, the ECCO warehouse manager is a Park West resident, so I might hear about this ... :-)
I ALWAYS speak my mind VC, you know that by now!! LOL!! I say the things that alot of people think but won't say publicly!!
I would be VERY interested to hear an explanation justifying the "most needed" items and who, in fact, the items are going to.
May I add a different perspective based on personal experience with two people I know who are disabled and get food bank donations? They scrape by on their $800 per month disablity - paying rent, utilities, medical bills not covered by Medicaid, etc. They consider it a blessing and a joy when they get a rare treat they can't afford at the food bank, be it cookies, day old cakes and breads, candy and yes, even chips.
It is a shame too that many TRULY disabled persons have to be dependent on donations to enjoy such things as desserts, chips, etc. At the same time, I can assure you that there are 20 times more people collecting disability under fraudulent circumstances and make a "career" out of working the system.
It is also a shame that politicans don't focus on this type of abuse of the system and make it much more difficult to collect benefits for non-existent "disabilities" so that persons truly in need could receive a better benefit as it was intended. Actually, conservatives do ad nauseum, but the bleeding hearts always cry foul to appease the same deadbeats that get them re-elected!!
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