ABOUT
Christmas 2015 I found "my calling" when I adopted a pizza place, convinced them to give me the food they were throwing out and letting me bring it to the have NOTS (Neighbors on the Street). The owners, a Muslim couple from Algeria, warm it up, put it in boxes, give me gloves and napkins and off I go...
TIPS FOR FOODSOLDIERS
Here is what I've learned re sharing food for the Have NOTS (Neighbors on the Street)
Wonderful instinct and generosity but please give to folks DIRECTLY as it will:
- Prevent your generous gesture from ending up as trash
- Give you a chance to receive direct heartfelt appreciation
- Give the recipient chance to interact in meaningful way
- Eg ask (perhaps) what it is, where its from, how old it is
- Will eliminate someone having to dig thru trash
- Will decrease it being left to rot or make someone sick
- Gives recipient face to face to evaluate that you are not crazy /trying to poison them
- Let's you know it was eaten and not left as trash
- Will lessen trash and spread of disease from what was meant as a genuine heartfelt not wasteful gesture
Read more about the Good Samaritan Food Distribution Law
MEDIA
SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE
“I think food is the first thing you need in life, and these neighbors don’t have enough of it. If you eat, you can think. And if you can think, you can move forward in your life and try to get the help you need.”
ABC NEWS
HOODLINE
"Pizza Lady," AKA Andrea Carla Michaels, has been delivering daily free slices of pie to neighbors in need for more than two years in the Lower Polk corridor. So far, she's distributed more than 17,000 slices, and she has no plans to stop."
