GET INVOLVED!

I am visiting with Lee Bradshaw weekly and watching this incredible project grow by leaps and bounds, but not because of financial donations. No. This project thus far has grown by people being creative and donating their resources, their connections and in some cases, themselves as manpower (or ‘womanpower’).

As a husband and father of 10 (+1), the challenges today’s society throws at us are not always ones we can control. People who are in need are not usually people who refuse to work. In fact, most are hard working, loyal, tax paying, kind individuals and families who have not been able to make enough, or by circumstances, have found themselves in a dire situation. Many times it’s a choice between paying a bill or food on the table and many feel obliged to pay their debts! Think about that!!

I stopped down town Salt Lake City and watched good men, lined up in the early morning frost with bitter winds, just in the hopes of getting a bus pass so they can get to work that day.

We have resources. All of us. From money to food in our back yards, to people we know who are unaware that Care for the Children and it’s harvest projects even exists. I would implore you to tell them about this site. To tell them of the work that has been done, what is being done and what we HOPE to do this year!

Take a moment to tell someone about us. Help us grow our connections with the people of the communities, while Lee Bradshaw and his volunteers make connections with companies and government entities.

The goal is to fill every belly. Please help us do it.
Contact us and give us your ideas and support.

God Bless.
Jaime Buckley

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   Lee J. Bradshaw says:

   January 26, 2010 at 10:45 am

   Thank you for this article. We all have a great deal of work ahead of us, should we chose to do so. Yes we have provided over thirty million meals to children in third world countries around the globe. We are grateful that we could be of service to the world and were able to help those children. But now our focus is here in our own backyard. Care for the Children is bringing the focus back home with their harvest projects.

   I heard on the radio this morning that it is estimated that 71,000 people here in Utah have lost their jobs over the past year. This is on top of the highest unemployment Utah has had since who know how long. These are people in our own neighborhoods, in Brigham City to Nephi and everywhere in between! In many ways it is harder to identify the need because we as Americans have so often been the “saviors” of the world that now that we find ourselves in need it is hard to swallow our pride and let someone help.

   In no way do I want to make anyone feel bad for not being able to provide for their family. I don’t want this to look like a free ride. We need help. I can find the food. It is growing and falling to the ground in backyards and orchards all over our state. I need help getting it to families in need. If you are a family in need you can help your own family as well as us by volunteering to help us gather food. We also will have a need to process some of the food gathered so that we can store it, so that throughout the rest of the year we have food to give. We need canning jars and supplies for this same purpose. And we need a building to work out of. Last but certainly not least we need money. Money is a hard one for me to ask for, but we need it to be able to carry on our work. So, creative or not we need people to step up and help and give.

   Go out and do something good today!
   Lee J. Bradshaw
   Officer of Care for the Children &
   Director of The Backyard Harvest Project

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     Jaime Buckley says:

     January 26, 2010 at 2:34 pm

     Lee, I appreciate your comment. There is no question of the need for people to step up and assist as well as make donations…my intent was to make sure everyone understood that money was not the only form of donation (if they had none to give).

     Jaime Buckley
     jaimebuckley.com

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