Comments on: GET INVOLVED! http://www.tbyhp.com/2010/01/get-involved/ Modern day Manna from Heaven. Tue, 04 May 2010 16:17:35 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Jaime Buckley http://www.tbyhp.com/2010/01/get-involved/comment-page-1/#comment-45 Jaime Buckley Tue, 26 Jan 2010 21:34:55 +0000 http://www.tbyhp.com/?p=157#comment-45 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 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
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]]> By: Lee J. Bradshaw http://www.tbyhp.com/2010/01/get-involved/comment-page-1/#comment-44 Lee J. Bradshaw Tue, 26 Jan 2010 17:45:06 +0000 http://www.tbyhp.com/?p=157#comment-44 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. <strong>But now our focus is here in our own backyard.</strong> 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 <strong>help</strong> getting it to families in need. <strong>If you are a family in need you can help your own family as well as us by volunteering to help us gather food.</strong> 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 <strong>money</strong>. 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! <strong>Lee J. Bradshaw</strong> Officer of Care for the Children & Director of The Backyard Harvest Project 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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