Hunger Is Not a Disease

No Fixed Address

“No Fixed Address” is dedicated to those in our country with no roof over their heads.  See your neighbors, your friends, your relatives, in new ways as they describe their daily lives in their own words.

The people in this new book reveal themselves to be both brave and fearless as they go about their activities:  work, laundry, children’s homework, appointments.  Mostly they live like the rest of us.  They just have no roof over their heads.

“No Fixed Address” is my newest book in the Unworthy Hungry series.  It’s easy to read and understand.  You won’t be bored, not even for a minute.

I hope you’ll order it today.  Get an extra copy for a friend!

This book has an extra surprise.  When you get a copy, you’ll be making a donation to a good cause.  You’ll be fighting hunger and homelessness.

It doesn’t get much better than that!

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Thurman Greco

Food Pantry Blog – Peggy’s Take Outs- Meet some of the homebound shoppers at the Good Neighbor Food Pantry

The people who received the food were all in a situation of need.
With homebound people, the longer a person is uninsured, the worse the health becomes. Some people simply can’t get to a pantry. They lack the health and/or resources to leave their homes.
Most, but not all, of the homebound were elderly. Good nutrition is critical to the health and life quality of seniors. Because of issues related to age, including decreased mobility, limited outside assistance and fixed incomes, the elderly can be especially vulnerable to food insecurity and malnutrition.
The elderly poor desperately need to use a pantry. This group desperately resists visiting a pantry as long as possible. The tragedy here is that food pantries are our tax dollars at work. we seniors have paid our taxes all our lives and now we have an opportunity to get a return on the investment.
When a senior citizen doesn’t get enough to eat, the children and grandchildren suffer because the older person ends up ill due to lack of nutrients. It’s estimated that one senior in four doesn’t get enough food to eat. Only 13% of the persons receiving food from HPNAP supported pantries are elderly.
Joyce is a perky 96-year-old who’s lived in Woodstock for years. She has a caregiver every day now but she really can’t go anywhere anymore so the food she receives is important. Whenever we get to her place, the caregiver has her all dressed up to see us. Her feet don’t work anymore but the brain does and she needs the few minutes of socialization as much as the food.
We have one delivery, a Native American woman experiencing mobility problems. Like Joyce she has a walker but life is still difficult. When she sees us coming, she gets behind her walker and struggles out to meet us.
One day she was coming out to meet us as we drove up and I could tell she wasn’t feeling well. Her usual smile was missing. We looked for something to cheer her up. We found it in the meat box. We found a package of ground bison meat. I honestly don’t know where it came from. Nobody had ever seen this item before. Nor have we seen one since. No matter. When Young Hawk saw the bison meat, she smiled. Her struggle became lighter for the moment.

William had a motorized scooter to get around and a walker also.  He had lost a leg to cancer and had a prosthesis.  William really needed the food delivery…not only for the food but also because of the social aspects of the delivery.  We could always tell when he hadn’t had a good week.

Ann, a 90+ year old woman lived alone in her home in the country.  She couldn’t drive anymore, so she really depended on the food. Ann’s favorite pastime in the mornings was chopping and arranging her firewood. 

Our board voted that we could not deliver food more than 10 miles out from Woodstock.  Clearly, we couldn’t serve everyone.

One couple hitch hiked in whenever they could.  They were a darling couple, too.  She was Elizabeth Taylor beautiful.  He had coal black hair, bright black eyes, and Sylvester Stallone features.

He mostly wore a full length coat in the winter over campers clothes.  She wore campers clothes as well.  Both outfits included practical hiking boots.  His jewelry included a knife with a 7″ blade tied to the thigh of one leg.

They lived five or six miles in from Route 28 in the Big Indian area.  So…they hiked the five miles on pantry day to Route 28 and then hitched to the pantry.

When we considered that he was terminally ill and she absolutely never opened her mouth, I don’t know how they made it in week after week after week.  But they did.  They shopped, got what they could carry and headed back out to Route 28 hoping for a ride home.

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Peace and food for all.
Thurman