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Greater Need
Expected

Welfare reform leaves more people hungry
during the holidays.

LONNY GOLDSMITH

StaffWriter

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close end up at larger agencies,"
Gonya said. "That kind of loss of
funding affects us because they will
need food from us sooner."
Forgotten Harvest differs from its
counterparts because it picks up food
and delivers it to the soup kitchens
that need it. It distributes food
directly because it doesn't have the
warehouse space of Gleaners and Yad
Ezra.
"We're still affected because the
soup kitchens have more people going

ccording to Yad Ezra, about
300 more people than last
year are expected to use the
services of the kosher food
bank this winter.
The increase comes on the heels of
welfare reform, part of which meant
the end of food stamps for some
immigrants.
"We haven't seen the increase in
people come through
here yet," said Yad
Ezra Development
Director Lea Luger.
"The people whose
stamps we know have
been cut, we've direct-
ed to Jewish Family
Service."
And fortunately,
Luger said, donations
to Yad Ezra have
increased.
"We anticipated
there would be an
influx of clients, just
not right away," she
Volunteers at Gleaners Food Bank
said. "This time of the
through there," 'merman said. "We're
year, people seem to be more sensitive
responding to the increase in need and
to the needs of the hungry and the
it's causing us to scramble. We're
homeless. It's nice to see the support,
stretched right now to bring in food."
but those things aren't seasonal."
The Los Angeles-based MAZON:
That sentiment is echoed by Gene
A Jewish Response to Hunger, has
Gonya of Gleaners Food Bank and
donated $26,000 to three Michigan
Miriam Imerman of Forgotten
organizations. The Food Bank of
Harvest.
Eastern Michigan, based in Flint,
"We store a lot of food over the
received $10,000 toward the purchase
winter, so that in the summer we can
of a refrigerated truck, and two
distribute to the agencies we help,"
Pontiac organizations, the Baldwin
said Gonya, president of the Detroit-
Church and Center and the
based food bank. "The places we serve
Lighthouse of Oakland County
often get enough donations over the
received $8,000 each to support their
winter, so they are dependent on us
food
assistance programs. ❑
starting in about March."
Gleaners has served 400 social ser-
For more information on how to
vice agencies, but that number is
get additional food assistance, con-
down to 300 in the last year and a
tact Debra Edwards, program
half. Many had to stop direct distribu-
manager for financial assistance, or
tion of food because of lack of fund-
Mmrna Shapiro at Jewish Family
ing.
Service at (248) 559-1500.
"The clients of those agencies that