The Soup Lady Project
I wrote a piece on Hunger In America and one of the comments came from Stefan of The Feed People Project. Stefan writes about the project:
The Feed People Project will look to find simple, elegant solutions that leverage its participants’ minds and able bodies to make change.
One solution is The Soup Lady Project which makes and delivers soup to the Drop-In Homeless Shelter at 150 Otis St. in San Francisco. One suggestion they have is donate $5 per month to the project:
The economics behind this opportunity are astounding. At only $.70 per 12oz serving, your recurring monthly donation will directly feed 7 people who have a hard time finding healthy nutritious food. For less than the price of one lunch a month you can give 7 people this very critical assistance.
For $5 a month, the price of a skipped lunch once a month, the price of a skipped third cocktail, or the loose change you collect each month, you can give seven hungry people one nutritious meal a month. Seems like we would hardly miss that $5! Considering, that over 11% of the U.S. is going hungry, it’s going to take BIG money to relieve their hunger. But, 1,000,000 people donating $5 would feed 35 million people one meal a month. 10,000,000 people donating $5 per month would feed 35 million people 10 meals a month.
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In our church we fast on the first Sunday of each month and donate the money which would have been spent on those meals. It’s up to each who fasts to determine how much the value of those meals was; but most folks dig deep and so those in need get the benefit. This money gets put into the welfare system of the church directly through the Bishop and since we there is no paid ministry, there is nothing skimmed off the top for operating expenses.
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Thanks for the post, Mike. You and T F Stern really hit on a key part of this - $5, or a skipped meal, is a drop in the bucket… especially when you consider what refocusing these resources can do to the community we live in.
I’m a firm believer in no overhead, by the way. The Soup Lady project is more about people taking ownership of their own solutions. What we’re doing (and what you’re now a part of as a sponsor, Mike) is sort of establishing a template. I’m talking to groups and using our sponsor teams as an example to get them thinking about ways they can set up their own food assistance systems. The main thing I’ll provide is the networking, tracking, and reporting of the project’s success, etc.
Thanks again…
- S