Our neighborhood helped prepare some Thanksgiving baskets to be given to needy families through Helpline House here on the island. The girls have been concerned about hungry children , so they came along with me, and brought some drawings and food of our own, when we delivered the neighborhood’s baskets. In return, we got a thank you postcard in the mail from Helpline, along with the following statistics, which surprised me, considering Bainbridge’s size(20,000) and affluence (median income $70K).
Did you know that….
The number of children who rely on the food bank would fill over 12 classrooms?
Well over 7 tons of food are distributed through the food bank each month?
1 out of 8 island households makes less than $25,000 a year?
