Lunches of Love – It Takes A Village To Feed Our Children

I moved to Rosenberg, Texas in 1976 with my new husband.  I was 17, and he was 20.  A year later, we had our first child.  I was a stay-at-home mom, and my husband had a job that paid $4.09 per hour.  Our second child was born in 1982.  We didn’t realize how much babies cost.

I will forever be grateful to the Reyna family of Rosenberg for giving us a place to live rent-free and for babysitting so we could work and build a better life and future for our children.

The people of Rosenberg were good to us.  Many times, when our kids were sick Dr. Isaac Kleinman took care of them and allowed us to pay him as we could.  Ed at Frank’s Pharmacy made sure we always had the right medications and knew how to use them, without a thought to when we would pay him back.  I took him a payment every month when the kids were healthy or sick because I knew he had our backs.

Mr. Milton Geick at Geick’s Auto Supply gave us store credit so we could keep our car running for work.

Our Lady of Guadalupe Catholic Church baptized my children, provided them years of religious education and taught my husband and me how to nourish our spirits and those of our children, even though we were unable to give much back to the church – and I wasn’t even Catholic.

Thanks to the love, kindness and generosity of the people of Rosenberg, my children not only survived but have grown into wonderful and thriving adults.

My heart is sad to learn today that 87% of the children of Rosenberg are on free or reduced lunches during the school year, and that many of these children are hungry during holidays and spring and summer breaks.

It is just not acceptable to me that we have hungry children in our country.  The United States is one of the riches and most educated countries in the world.  Our government sends unimaginable amounts of money to assist other countries and to fight wars for other people, yet we have hungry people here.

Lunches of Love is an organization I saw today on my niece, Amy’s, Facebook page.  Lunches of Love is  feeding the hungry children in Rosenberg, Texas during holidays and breaks from the school year.  According to their website, it takes only 65 cents to provide a lunch for a child.  Sixty-five cents.

It is my hope that each person who reads this will feel compelled to provide ten lunches to Lunches of Love for the children of Rosenberg, Texas.  That is $6.50 – less than the price of one pack of cigarettes, less than one premium margarita, less than one movie ticket, less than one fast food meal.  If you just skip that morning stop at Starbucks one day, you could provide a nourishing lunch to ten hungry children in Rosenberg, Texas.

Lunches of Love can be found at http://www.lunchesoflove.net/#!.  They accept PayPal, so it couldn’t be easier.  I am not affiliated with this organization, but I did just log on to PayPal and provided lunches for 76 hungry children.  Thank you to all those who will take me up on this request.  :)