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\nshields of cars stopped for the light andasking the driver for change.\"Washingcars\"is a full-time oceupation for some;folks I know say they can make twenty tothirty dollars working at ittwelve hours aday.Some work in teams,pooling their in-come to buy food or sometimes to rent aroom-too often much of it goes to buydrugs or wine.  \nThere are a number of places in theneighborhood that serve open meals:churches,missions,independently runsoup kitchens such as ours at St.JosephHouse,and the city-run shelters.Thesevary widely in size and practice.For ex-ample,several missions require people toparticipate in a religious service before being fed.A group from New York Universi-ty began a Sunday afternoon meal program in the social hall at the Church ofthe Nativity around the corner from us anSecond Avenue.They serve meatloaf orhotdogs and grilled cheese to some fivehundred people.At St.Joseph House weserve a soupmeal Friday through Sundaymornings for anywhere from one hundredand fifty to four hundred people.With anumber of places serving at differenttimes on different days of the week,it canbe confusing keeping track of who is serv-ing where,and when.Only the cityshelters serve three times a day,sevendays a week.The City Men's Shelter onThird Street feeds several thousand menaday,in terribly oppressive conditions.Security guards patrol the dining areawith nightsticks in hand,while fights con-tinually break out on the waiting line.Severe injuries,even deaths,are not un-common(a year ago at Thanksgiving,forexample,a man was bludgeoned to deathwith a two-by-four while waiting for ameal),and it is no wonder that many menavoid eating at the Men's Shelter when atall possible.  \nEmpty Pantry  \nIn some ways more difficult than theplight of the homeless individual is that ofpoor families,particularly single motherswith small children,who run out of food.The amount of money allotted to familiesin welfare payments,food stamps,andsupplemental food checks is rarelyenough to cover a family's monthly foodneeds adequately.Once out of food.families do not have the mobility to seekout meal programs that the individualperson has.(It would now cost a family offour 87.20 to make a single round trip excursion on New York subways.)AtMaryhouse,we keep a food pantry withcanned goods and staple foodstuffs,which we distribute to families coming tothe door needing food.Although we haveexpanded the scope of the pantry,andreplenish it each Thursday when we doour house food shopping.by early in thefollowing week it is usually empty.  \nYes,there is hunger in our neighborhood,not the dramatic,famine-levelhunger seen in areas of the Third World,but hunger nonetheless.If people areeating enough,it is due to their own in-genuity and extreme patience.Everyweekend they line up at our door for thesoupmealDaily they come by,seeking asandwich or perhaps a piece of fruit.Ifpeople are willing to stand for half an hourin the cold,driving rain for abowl of soup.two slices of buttered bread,and a cup ofcoffee,it can't be for the convenience ofobtaining food for free;it is because theyare hungry.  \nThere is another kind of hunger thatneeds to be alleviated.This is spiritualhunger,a hunger which comes from beingalienated,helpless,alone.In many ways  \nTHE CATHOLIC WORKER  \nthis is a far more serious problem for us toattend to than physical hunger.Recentlya group of students virited the Worker fora day.I was talking with them,trying todescribe some of the physical realities ofhomelessness in New York,when ane ofthe students asked an unusual question:\"Do the people living on the street havemuch faith?\"I had to stop and reflect fora moment,for I was accustomed toanswering questions such as:how manyhomeless are there in New York?;wheredo they come from?;how do they eat?;where do they sleep?Perhaps I was alsoused to thinking only in those terms.Myanswer to her question was,\"In manycases,yes.\"People on the street oftenhave 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The author argues it can be addressed through openness and feeding people with whatever resources the community has.\"}]","VOL51ISSUE 1 - Hunger - Continued from page 1 | PDF",14]