A little help goes a long way!

It's Saturday evening. I wanted to add a few pictures to this story, but the internet is S L O W tonight and so, you will have to visualize it yourself. Starting at noon, we distributed what I will call "relief food" to over 300 people. This is food that came through various agencies like Catholic Relief Services and C.A.R.E. as a result of the generosity of people like you following the earthquake. The food was given to families who had opened their hearts and homes to friends and relatives who had lost everything in the earthquake.
Quietly they sat on the chairs, waiting for their turn and clutching the individual cards identifying the new people in the house. (This information had been collected during the past month.)
My job was simple, I checked off their name from the list I had.
When it was their turn, each received flour, wheat, beans, cooking oil, peanut butter, and tuna. There was a given amount for each person. So, if 7 new people had moved into the house, they received 7 times the individual amount. Many people belong to the Save A Family Program and already receive help of one kind or another. This food was to help them with the extra people they had taken into their homes.
I wanted to add pictures, because you could then see some of what I saw. Gratitude.. profound gratitude. This food came from people like you who opened your hearts and pocketbooks to those in need after the earthquake -- just as they had opened their arms, and their homes. God bless us all. Mary Ann