Kitchen without a stove and
refrigerator is no place to cook
healthy food
Today I received some more quotes from Nelson Mandela that you will not find in the American media. So with the quotes I used in the posting Replacing Mandela. I have a good source of Mandela quotes to start a new quote page on www.nonviolentcow.org .
Today making a home visit for our St. Vincent De Paul Conference I met a mother who just moved into a rental unit that “did not come with a stove or refrigerator.” Sadly this is a common experience these days where landlords do not lower rents but do not provide basic appliances, like stove and refrigerator. With all the appeals for food these days I wrote a ‘Letter to the Editor’ of the local paper about this situation. Here it is:
Dear Editor,
Giving food to the hungry is popular during this season. That is good, but things are different this year. A growing number of landlords are no longer providing stoves and refrigerators in rental housing in the poorest and most segregated neighbors of Milwaukee. Calling 211 people find the only group providing vouchers toward a purchase of a used stove or refrigerator are a limited number of St. Vincent De Paul (SVDP) conferences located in parishes. SVDP is an international Catholic lay organization dedicated to person to person visits to people need and providing aide when they can. With the increase demand for used stoves and refrigerators the cost has come up. SVDP conferences are limited in what they can do.
There was a proposal to use the 1.1 million dollars realized by the Archdiocese closing a Catholic Church in North Central Milwaukee to provide a Sustainable Works of Mercy Fund for beds, stoves and refrigerators. However the Church decided to put the money into an ‘endowment’ fund instead.
So food flows freely this season but how do the poor use it? We need an organized effort to provide stoves and refrigerators for the hungry to prepare and cook healthy food.
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