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June 16, 2006
Change-ing Hunger
Yesterday, marked the culmination of a year long effort on the part of Lauren Pulver - nursery school teacher, synagogue educator, parent of two, concerned citizen and dear friend. Together with a concerned and motivated bunch of teenagers, they have been collecting 40,000 quarters -- each quarter represented one person from Long Island who goes to bed hungry every night. The quarters will go to the Interfaith Nutrition Network (The INN). The teens, from Roslyn, Great Neck, and Port Washington, have participated in several social action projects this year, a few of which have been with the INN, including making hundreds of sandwiches one day, and also helping out in the soup kitchen on another occasion. They are thrilled to see their project come to fruition!
It was a very exciting program, which included handing a $10,000 check to the director of the INN. The press was there -- it will be in Saturday's Newsday, on News12 and a few of the Anton papers. It was astounding to look at the array of quarters and realize that this is only 1/8 of the total number of hungry people on Long Island. So sad and so wonderful that we were able to help a portion of them through this program. Lauren had prepared buttons for us all to wear which had the quote from Margaret Mead, "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it's the only thing that ever has." This quote says it all.
(Cute post title was borrowed from last Sunday's Daily News article about the Quarter Project.)
Posted by Michele at June 16, 2006 2:41 PM