Michelle Obama And Jill Biden Spend Afternoon Volunteering At DC Food Bank

[jefferson_dem]

Michelle Obama And Jill Biden Spend Afternoon Volunteering At DC Food Bank



WASHINGTON — First Lady Michelle Obama is making good on her promise to actively volunteer in the Washington area, bagging food for hungry children at a local food bank on her husband's 100th day in office.

Mrs. Obama and Jill Biden, wife of Vice President Joe Biden, joined more than 100 congressional spouses at the Capital Area Food Bank on Wednesday, passing out packages of wheat pasta and cans of pineapple as volunteers bagged 2,000 meals for low-income kids in the area.

This is the second time the first lady has volunteered for the hungry in the District of Columbia. In March, she served lunch to the homeless at a soup kitchen.

The event was sponsored by the food bank and Feeding America, a hunger relief group.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/04/29/michelle-obama-and-jill-b_0_n_193098.html

[firedupdem]

1. Rec'd...Great Job leading by example. n/t

[TechBear_Seattle]

2. The photo op was nice, certainly

I do wonder how many of these people provided resources other than a bit of time, though; how many learned something about what many Americans are facing rather than treat this as a "do-gooder outing." By far, the biggest problem is not finding volunteers to bag food (although that can be a problem) but finding food to bag.

I hope this is followed up by the spouses issuing a public statement for Americans to donate resources to their local food banks. And, hopefully, they will put pressure on their legislative partners to do something meaningful about easing the need for food banks.