# Food for the needy

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Firstly I would like to wish everybody on and off this Forum a very happy Christmas and a good New year Ihave written this piece as my feelings to Anonymous and Eve,regarding the food parcels given to the needy prior to Christmas.
 I understand your sentiments,but I feel perhaps a little over the top of Anonymous,regarding people collecting food parcels and then going to market to buy clothes,and for Eve your dedication to animals is obvious,but they do have charity shops to help,the needy had no known help.
 I think jeff and his staff did a really great job in getting the food parcels up and running in such a short time,as much as jeff gets very little praise from me,(in fact this could be a first). I wasnt there when the food was given out,I hope everybody who needed food got some,and yes perhaps a few took advantage,but hey at the end of the day it must of been great for the ones who really needed it.
 Further than that,our Councillors idea od a cheap meal for the needy in the Social Centre looks like another good idea,I am sure that in the vast majority,the right people will use this,and the pariahs of society will find something else to do.
 My personal feeling is this latest idea,must start soon although obviously very little will happen until after `Three Kings` But I hope it will start as soon as possible.
 I do get emotionally involved in these sort of things,In I have a story to tell,albeit not now,except to say i am one of sixteen children whose Father was a Labourer all his working life,but as I say that is for another time
 Last couple of things.Eve I was born at the end of the war but have always been told,that everybody helped everybody else during the war,Independance didnt come into it,you did what you did for others,perhaps it was different where you lived.But my family were londoners.And lastly to Anonymous,i gather the food distribution has been going on for a while in San Fulgencio and still goes on,which means the givers of food are quite happy with the end result,Yes the same people will turn up each week.you dont often go from needy to comfortable in a week,unless you do the lottery and strike lucky