Olivia Weesner’s Feb. 9 letter, “Homeless numbers rising,” discussed the issue about the increasing number of homeless people in Washington and Oregon. This issue correlated with my culminating project I did in December. For my project, I did a food drive to raise food for St. Vincent De Paul.
In her letter Weesner addressed the fact that “one out of every six children will not get to go home and eat dinner with their families tonight.” She also provided a statistic that “one out of five adults will not be able to put breakfast on the table the next morning.” After reading these shocking facts, and looking at the number of homeless and poverty rates in Oregon, I agree that people need to start taking action.
Upon completing my culminating project, I learned that a single person is all it takes to start making a positive change in our community. It only took me one week to raise 137 pounds of food for St. Vincent De Paul. This food was able to help 14 different families.
Like Weesner, “I urge you to become more aware of what is happening around you and what this epidemic is doing to both states.”
