Sweet Charity?
Emergency Food and the End of Entitlement
Chapter One
Charity for All
"ALL WEEK LONG I have been hearing about how they are going to go
from door to door and that they hope lots of people give lots of food
so they can collect. They are very much into it." Marge, the mother of
two Cub Scouts, is filling me in on the home front side of the Boy
Scouts' Scouting for Food canned goods drive as we sort and pack
donated foods at sturdy tables set up in the parking lot of the Ciba-Geigy
company cafeteria. It is warm and sunny, extraordinarily pleasant
weather for New Jersey in November, so I have opted for the
outdoor operation, but most of the packing is taking place inside the
cafeteria, a long, low building on Ciba-Geigy's corporate campus in
Toms River, New Jersey. Toms River is also home to the Jersey Shore
Council of the Boy Scouts of America, which covers Ocean, Atlantic,
and parts of Burlington and Cape May Counties. Each November
since 1988, the Jersey Shore Council has sponsored one of the
nation's most successful drives. The Scouts distribute empty bags ... read full excerpt from Sweet Charity? ebook
