JTRA’s Kitchen serves hot lunches to the community free of charge since they are still trying to rebuild , and get their homes , and lives together. We also are serving a large population of homeless people. Many of the homeless have jobs, but do not make enough money to
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Shared with us from Ray Reggie’s Weblog Ray Reggie shares about his involvement with the JTRA food bank with us — RRW: Ray, How long have you been involved with the JTRA? Ray Reggie: I have been involved with the JTRA since 2002. RRW: How did you become involved with
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My name is Lisa and I am a guest columnist here at Ray Reggie’s Feed the Needy of New Orleans for this post. Mr. Reggie is a friend of mine and one of the things that strikes me every time that I speak with him is that one of the
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Just the Right Attitude, or JTRA, is a food bank in New Orleans that I am the Chairman of the Board for. Excerpt from the new press release: “Local food bank, Just the Right Attitude (JTRA) is at capacity. They are assisting the largest number of first time applicants in
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The push for change across our Nation began long before the President made it a household mantra. The economy has been in a changing pattern for years. People have been increasingly beginning to gear their lifestyles away from the fast paced, competitive lives we have created and going back to
We had an eventful week at JTRA, New Orleans’ largest food bank. With the unemployment lines rising, the lines at the food bank are steadily increasing. JTRA (www.JTRA.org) will distribute 3 million pounds of food this year which is the equivalent to over an 18 wheeler a week. Sadly, we
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Food banks all over the country are being hit with a huge increase in needy, hungry people and the food banks are feeling the pressure. Luckily, there are a lot of great organizations out there and people that are devoting their time and money to food banks knowing that this
Isn’t it amazing that while the government is handing out money hand over fist to the car companies and the big dollar corporations that have all gotten themselves into trouble, yet I don’t hear the words “bailout” and “food banks” in the same sentence? How does our government justify that?
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We know the Country is in a sad state of affairs when people can’t even afford to feed their pets anymore but that seems to be the case more and more. Pet food banks are popping up around the Country to help allow people to feed their pets in hopes
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Like food banks don’t have enough hurdles to jump over to keep themselves going to feed the needy, now we can add in all the peanut butter recalls we are facing. Peanut butter is a common staple at food banks and that isn’t even taking into consideration the various other
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