People hoping for food...So Florida, San Antonio, Pittsburgh

[Laura PourMeADrink]

[dalton99a]

1. The greatest country on Earth begging for face masks, ventilators, toilet paper, food, ...

Thanks to the stupid murderous motherfucking freak that Republicans put in the White House

[Laura PourMeADrink]

3. I beg our people to not fall for the sugar coated

propaganda that is coming. The plight of the very needy that many of us who are worried we can't find this or that forget about.

[dalton99a]

4. +1. $1200 is not going to last long

[oasis]

2. So much winning under Trump. Kushner should be handling this.

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

5. It won't help the people in those pictures,

but when I get my stimulus money, half is going to a local homeless shelter, the other half to a local food bank.

I am very fortunate that I am retired, live on a fixed income which is perfectly adequate, and so I don't need the money as much as others do.

[uponit7771]

6. I want to go to one with my kids now to help them.. I can't

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

7. Right. Most of those places are not currently allowing volunteers

that would have been perfectly fine two or three months ago.

You might want to call the shelter you'd otherwise volunteer for and ask what you can possibly do for them.

If nothing else, is there a sewing machine in your house and can you make masks?

Can your kids check in with neighbors, especially elderly ones, and offer free delivery? Or even offer to do yardwork?

[uponit7771]

8. I'll call them, this changes things

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

9. If you want, PM me when you find out how you can help out.

I have volunteered at a local homeless shelter for nearly a decade now. I work in the kitchen, preparing and serving food to the homeless. I love doing it. It's hard work but incredibly gratifying.

Because the shelter houses people in a dormitory situation where there is almost no separation, I understand they've stopped taking in very many people but have been able to send their clients to local motels. There's also a disused college campus here (here being Santa Fe, NM) and volunteers have done the minor repairs and upgrades needed in the dorms and now homeless are being housed there.

This is surely not the only city finding a creative solution to the homeless problem.

What I want most to point out is the community aspect, that people are coming together to solve problems.

[uponit7771]

10. will do