Alláh’u’abhá,
On October 14, I presented at the World Food Day commemoration sponsored by the Interfaith Hunger Coalition, New Mexico Interfaith Power and Light and others. After the event, Imam Abdur Rauf from The Lighthouse of New Mexico invited the Bahá’ís to join their efforts to feed the homeless once a week.
In a small room of their center on Thursday, four Muslims (one, a JR Youth), two other women and myself assembled bags with peanut butter and jelly sandwiches, fresh fruit, a juice box, snacks, and water. Another woman made a hot dish that was also given to the people. After that, we drove around and gave the bags to those who didn’t get into a shelter for the night.The people knew the Muslims and the they knew many of the people by name. We fed about 90 people last night.
We knew that we were not making a dent in the problem but that it is about community coming together. The hope is with a interfaith connection, this effort can expand to Friday.
If you want to help with the assembling and/or distribution of food on Thursday afternoons, send message e-mail to The Lighthouse of New Mexico via its home page (scroll down), send an e-mail to admin@thelighthousenm.org or call 505-750-7806
There is also a donation box outside the community building, 3420 Constitution Ave. NE, Suite C, to drop off your non-perishable foods and other items.
Here is a needs list:
- individual cookies and chips
- water
- 100% juice boxes or pouches
- disposable gloves (to make the sandwichs with)
- jelly
- peanut butter
- bread
- ziplock sandwich bags
- snack individually wrapped
- fresh fruit
- socks
- jackets
- gloves
- sweat pants
- baseball caps
- blankets
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