by admin | Feb 10, 2011 | SNAP Challenge: Living on $30 a Week
Day 3 and we’re already seeing some changes. Hmm… Things Heather and I have in common currently: We’re not starving by any means, but we feel hungrier than normal and think about food a lot! We are drinking a lot more water. We feel awkward going out. A...
by admin | Feb 8, 2011 | SNAP Challenge: Living on $30 a Week
This is Jan from A-SPAN (Should be easy to remember). Like Heather, I work to raise awareness and funding for a population at risk: the homeless of Arlington, Virgina. An anonymous sage shared with me that “homelessness isn’t a genetic disease or something you...
by admin | Feb 1, 2011 | SNAP Challenge: Living on $30 a Week
Up until now I thought I understood hunger. Understood what it means to be without the kinds of food I find healthy and desirable, and what it may mean to live as many of my hungry and homeless neighbors do. Hunger and feeding people is something I think and talk...
by admin | Jan 19, 2011 | Homelessness, Issues
‘Michelle’ is not what you would expect. When she came to the Center she stood out and did not look comfortable at all. However, she didn’t walk with the stature of a person who had been on the lower side of a shoe most of their lives. She was well...