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Rebroadcast: Not Enough to Eat
If you're a regular listener you may have noticed that we're slipping a rebroadcast or two into our schedule this month. In fact it is one per week for five weeks during the heat of summer. The reason we're doing this is to allow Think Out Loud producers and hosts some time to work on big projects and series that you'll start to hear on the air (or read on the site) this fall.
This week Julie Sabatier, our associate producer, is out. She's hitting the streets in Portland, Bend and Blachly (northwest of Eugene) to get a better understanding of Oregon's homeless population. She's gathering information to launch a series on homelessness this fall. After all, it was recently reported that Oregon leads the nation in homelessness. Quite a startling statistic.
In honor of this upcoming series, we're rebroadcasting a powerful (we thought) conversation from a couple months ago about hunger. In case you missed it, this is your chance to hear a really frank discussion about what it's like when you don't know where your next meal is coming from.
Have you ever been in this sitation? Do you ever wonder where your food is coming from? Have you been, or known someone who has been, hungry and even perhaps homeless? Share your comments here and, of course, feel free to look back on the lively discussion we had when this show first aired.
Photo credit: Hamed Parham / Flickr / Creative Commons
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Of all the private agencies serving greater Portland folks who need food, the St. Vincent de Paul Society may be the oldest and most quickly responsive. Anyone, not only Catholics, may call this number for immediate assistance: 503-595-2290.
A guiding principle of SVP has been never to be judgmental, especially in such private matters as the number of mouths to feed in a family. The Society focuses only on providing food for the hungry and does it with a prayer and a smile.
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What about all these buffets in restaurants..they throw away tons of food daily...is there some way that this food can be donated to food banks? Is there such a program in place? Similarly, with farmers markets' excess produce that they don't sell - instead of throwing it away, can it not be collected and donated to the hungry?
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This is what we all should be talking about. These children must be fed.
Marion Polk Food Share in Salem Oregon is planning on establishing an interpretive center on food insecurity and poverty in our existing warehouse. We want to get the information out to the public and keep up this conversation. We are looking for solutions, but first the public has to be made aware that so many people in their community, in their own neighborhoods and schools are hungry for numerous reasons. This program is taking the right steps to expose the community to this issue.
We are looking for ways to describe food insecurity to children and families who have no knowledge about it. We want to make them fully aware, and inspire them to take some kind of action in their community to solve the food hunger problem.