On Monday WHYY’s Newsworks.org posted an essay I wrote about my experience with homelessness and hunger right here in Philadelphia. Here is the link:
Below are the first few lines and photo from the essay:
About a year ago I interviewed a woman who volunteers at a church-sponsored soup kitchen in Center City. The essay, “Women Who Serve,” was posted on Women’s Voices for Change, and gave me a more hopeful perspective on ending hunger. But seeing the homeless men stream through the dining area, eating with their coats on, was a reminder of one night in Chinatown, several years ago that left me feeling helpless.…..Click on link above to read my entire essay and leave a comment if you wish at the end of the essay.
Chinatown Photo on WHYY’s Newsworks website accompanying my essay.