Anonymous
Source: Unity Shoppe
At the Unity Shoppe, food supplies are at a crisis level with many shelves empty. Nearly 10,000 low-income families are referred annually to the Unity Shoppe from other non-profit organizations, churches, schools, and hospitals. For this Holiday Season, up to 150 families can come in daily and will need chickens to feed their families.
By supporting Unity’s Chicken/Turkey fund, you can help us purchase these meat products at wholesale prices.
The Unity Shoppe provides working low-income people, children, and seniors the opportunity to shop for their needs at no charge in a “Central Distribution Facility” during times of crisis. By coordinating these services, more people are helped with better and more consistent support. In 2017, the Unity Shoppe helped nearly 18,000 unduplicated people. Throughout the year, over 50,000 visits were made to the “free” store, which is available to the clients of all charities.
Unity is uniquely able to meet the needs of all those referred in a manner that restores dignity and gives people hope. You can make a huge difference in the lives of less fortunate families!!
To make a financial contribution or for more information, please visit: www.unityshoppe.org or contact Pat Hitchcock, Public Relations pat@unityshoppe. 805-965-4122 ext 805
Because they are not all self inflicted. But then again I’m not sure what you would consider self inflicted I recently helped others some it was a couple alcoholics with a kid I was concerned for the kid so when I could I’d buy alittle food for them. Not all the time because I could not afford it when I could.,Their situation is better now kid is eating…
Good grief, I hate the idea only “those who can afford it should live here.” There are natives who should just be chased out of their hometown? We only want the rich? Yuck, not a place to be proud of!
Why should the rest of us pay you to live in your “home town”? Why didn’t you get a skill set that allowed you to afford to stay? You have a good community college and a good public university a bus ride away. Why didn’t you make this work for you? Roger made it work for himself. That’s the spirt you need so spare us the scolding.
One of your Sons caused me to have an accident at work that Disabled me believe me it’s working for me now and so are you. 🙂
My “Home town, and Santa Barbara ” are both in the United State of America not in Russia not yet anyway Factotum you would be welcome in my hometown since it’s in the United States of America.
I have volunteered at the Unity Shoppe and can tell you that it is a great thing. There are a lot of people in SB who for some reason or another are down and out and need these types of services. By and large the clientele there are good, hardworking families who just struggle financially. The food is not fancy and while the Shoppe works hard to maintain they dignity of their clients, I am sure that all of them would far and away prefer to have the means to shop at a regular supermarket. I think it’s disingenuous to imply that the “customers” of Unity Shoppe are lazy drunk homeless people who are freeloading their way to their next 12-pack. BTW Factotum, $83K will only get you a $350,000 mortgage, which is about $100,000 short of what you would need to buy the absolute cheapest condo in Santa Barbara or Goleta. One needs to make well over $100K/year for getting into rock-bottom real estate in the South Coast.
The reason we help people that are making poor choices is to try and make sure the lives of their children are less negative. I do not believe Unity helps single people- they always say families. In the spirit of the holidays, this seems like a good idea!
The main cause of the “shortage” is that one particular “group” is cornering the market with multiple recips from the same household.
When I pointed this out, I was told; “We help everyone equally”..
So I just gave out the food.
Semi-skilled labor $20 an hour x two equals $40 an hour (hey, you may have to be married or have a room mate) times 40 hour weeks times 52 weeks a year equals $83,000 year. Cry me a river if you can’t get by here on $83,000 a year. And save up enough for a small condo or double wide. Lots have already beat you to this option. Don’t get left behind.