Thank you, Blue Heart, for showing up for us!
This month, Blue Heart chose Self Help Hunger Program as their Grantee of the Month, and we are so grateful. Their member donations are going straight to keeping our doors open at a critical time.
Blue Heart has stood with us before, in 2018 and again in March of this year. When our past funding fell away, we were nearing the end of our operating funds. A new grant arrives in December, but there is a three-month gap to cover. That gap pays for our one employee, our one van, and our Tuesday through Friday operations that put meals in the hands of hundreds of people every week. It also pays for our third-Sunday giveaway of fresh produce and hot meals.
For more than 18 years we’ve offered free food, free clothing, and free access to services, powered by free labor, dedication, and love. Blue Heart sat down with our founder, Aunti Frances Moore, for their Think Hopeful, Act Local podcast. Watch the interview above.
Join us on Sunday, October 18, 12 to 4 PM, at the Chapel of the Flowers. Volunteer with Blue Heart members at our food giveaway. RSVP to Anna at Anna.T.Biddle@gmail.com.
Thank you, Blue Heart, and thank you to everyone who gives, volunteers, and spreads the word. This is what community self-help looks like.
Donate here: https://gofund.me/36455a459
Our programs
10. We want land, bread, housing, education, clothing, justice, peace and people’s community control of modern technology.
Using public land, Self Help Hunger Program has been offering free food, free clothing, and free access to services for over 14 years. Based on free labor, dedication and endless love for humankind, Self Help Hunger Program stands as a testimony to the fact that when communities are left to care for themselves they can truly thrive.
OUR PROBLEMS, OUR SOLUTIONS!
4. We want decent housing, fit for the shelter of human beings.
Oakland is experiencing an unprecedented surge in homelessness. Despite the increasing number of houseless, the number of programs available to them is decreasing. We are taking a stand, by offering emergency housing while working with people in their transition towards indoors.
2. We want full employment for our people.
With the educational system having failed to prepare our people for the job market, we take it upon ourselves to train, certify and hire members of our community in deep need of a revenue.