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Authors, sign in!I can take you there. To the current, on-going "Great Depression." It's been around for decades here in Dallas.
Sad thing is, its pace is picking up considerably. You can see it in our Resource Center here in East Dallas. Or, if you prefer a neighborhood expression, complete with lots of children and weary adults, I can take you there to several different versions of the same terrifying reality.
For here, let's look at our Resource Center. Folks still call it the Food Pantry....
Consider:
Through the first nine months of 2007, our volunteers served 14,487 hours and interviewed and served 31,603 individuals from 19,418 presenting family units. These "contact" numbers represented 7,968 unduplicated family units and 13,438 different individuals. Lots of people with food and life issues. Lots of work.
Through the first nine months of 2008, our volunteers logged 12,621 hours and interviewed and served 40,118 individuals from 23,272 presenting family units. These "contact" numbers represent 9,151 unduplicated family units and 16,037 different individuals. Even more people with nutrition and life issues. Lots of work.
Twenty-seven percent increase in individual contacts. Twenty percent increase in family contacts. A 15% increase in unduplicated families and a 19% increase in unduplicated individuals served in this one venue. It is also interesting to note that we experienced a 13% decline in available volunteer hours to do even more work.
Tough times for people who have little. But, not new times, not new at all.
Published October 16, 2008 by Larry James |
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