MINISTRY FEATURED IN THE VINDY
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SHERRY MITCHELL FIGHTS HIV HER WAY
FIGHTING HUNGER
As part of the support services we provide to HIV-positive adults and their families, we feed a lot of people. At our monthly Café, we serve a meal to about 120 adults and children and send home three bags of canned, fresh and frozen food for 60 households as well as holiday meals at Thanksgiving, Christmas and Easter. At Casa Madre we feed dinner to children three nights every week during the school year and breakfast and lunch four days each week during the summer. On Fridays we deliver donated bread and baked goods to clients. Patient education events at the clinic are always combined with a meal, and patients can usually find a snack waiting for them while they wait to see their doctor. We could never feed as many people as well as we do without our volunteers and without the Second Harvest Food Bank. We have volunteers who cook every third Saturday at the Café, help with food pickups and bag packing, and deliver nutritious homemade meals to Casa Madre. And we receive food from the food bank every week at low or no cost to our program. Recently Second Harvest asked us to ask our clients what getting food bags means to them, and here are some of their responses:
Alice: “We would have to make a choice of household products or food. Thank god I don’t have to choose between eating and cleaning the bathroom!
Bill: “Getting food from the food bank means I can fill my prescription
medications! Thank you.”
Donna: “I have really been blessed by the food I have received for the last past years. I would have starved many of those times without it. God Bless you.”
Ernie: “Everything we get in the bags is so helpful. There’s not much left
at the end of the month at times.”
Norma: “There have been times when I haven’t been able to feed my kids and you have helped out. I appreciate you more than you could have ever known.”
On behalf of those we serve, thank you to our volunteers, benefactors and to our friends at the Second Harvest Food Bank.