Minnie's Food Pantry: Feed Just One

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Hi there The-Average-Alex here.
Mozilla Firefox is currently hosting a Challenge on Crowdrise, The "challenge" is for Charities to try and raise as much money as possible for a chance to win up to 50 thousand dollars that will go towards their efforts.

Here at DAC we are choosing to back Minnies Food Pantry.

What Is Minnie's Food Pantry?
Minnie’s Food Pantry is a 501 C3 charity that provides healthy, nutritious food and red carpet treatment to every person we serve in the community. 
Run by 1 woman and a handful of volunteers Minnie's strives to serve everyone who comes through their doors. The entire "store" is set out like your average grocery store except there is one tiny difference.
There are NO registers. 



Imagine waking up one morning with your child or sibling hungry and crying for food next to you; and you can do nothing but look into their eyes and apologize because you do not have the money to provide for that need. You cannot say it to them, but they can feel you. It doesn’t ease the pain for them or for you. In fact it is heartbreaking to see your loved ones suffer like that. Millions of families in the United States are living through this every moment, every single day.

Hunger breaks you from within. It hurts physically and mentally, and most of all emotionally. The thousand small humiliations you face every day while fighting for the most basic need; food, turns into a fight for existence before you know it. The four meals that you enjoy every day is somebody’s dream. While you are dreaming your next vacation or your next home with your friends, someone else is dreaming of being able to buy their child a box of cereals. While you hastily swallow down the last morsel of breakfast as if it was getting in the way of your life, someone else out there is hoping they can get a chance to eat breakfast one day. Such is the stark difference between needs and wants in our times.

And while there may not be much you can do directly to help them, you can help give them a meal or support their families in getting basic nutrition by making a donation of whatever amount you can. While a larger amount does guarantee food for a greater number of people, every dollar counts, as Minnie’s Food Pantry tries to buy food at subsidized rates to feed families with the donations that caring, responsible adults like you make. You can be the difference between a child going to bed hungry and a child going to bed full. You can be the difference between a family eating breakfast and getting the basic energy they need to work and provide for the family, and a family suffering from malnutrition and a resultant decline in everyday energy to do any meaningful work. It may be a dollar for you, but for someone out there, that dollar is SURVIVAL, it's FOUR meals. Make your dollar someone’s survival. Deep in your heart you will always be happy with this one decision. The family that receives food from your donation will appreciate you, and like they say, the good you do always comes back to you, in some way. We hope you will make a difference today, and if you do; give yourself a pat on the back, because thanks to you, someone is going to eat a meal today.



Why we are Supporting Minnie's
Because I have an internet connection.
Because I have food in my Pantry.
Because I ate a full meal last night.
I have everything i need, i've never had to experience true hunger, i'm lucky.

Yes, there are larger charities which focus on feeding those in 3rd world countries or on a large scale, But without our support Charities like Minnie's will cease to exist.
 
We Need your help 
Our goal is to raise $5000 to help Minnie's Food Pantry. 
It seems like a lot of money but our group has 37 thousand members! Imagine if everyone donated $10. Thats 370 THOUSAND DOLLARS. Imagine how many people that would feed.

To help us Reach our goal of $5000 please use the link below to get to the DAC CrowdRise page (run by me) 


The minimum donation amount is $10 and the maximum is $10,000 (this is set by crowdrise not by me) We have until The 10th of January 2013  to reach our goal. so please donate to this great charity.

For more information about Minnies Food Pantry Click this link: www.minniesfoodpantry.org/mfp/

For More information about the Mozilla Firefox Crowdrise Challenge click this link: www.crowdrise.com/firefoxchall…

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though her activity here has dropped a little she is still a valued member of the DAC team.

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I donated some money, though I think this journal isn't promoted enough. I didn't notice it until much later...