Re: Choice clothing kept under wraps from homeless [VoA] FWD
Leslie Schentag (wy497@victoria.tc.ca)
Thu, 23 Jul 1998 09:15:16 -0700 (PDT)
You have to remember though that we live in a society based on greed and
not compassion. Sad, but true!!
L.
On Thu, 23 Jul 1998, Virginia Sellner wrote:
> This too is a "normal" happening in a lot of agencies. Even small budget
> agencies that are staffed primarily by volunteers -- the volunteers are
> there just so they can get first choice on things.
>
> Case in point is an agency here that provides food and clothing for the
> poor. A new director came in and reorganized things so that those who were
> having weekly garage sales with the stuff they got from the agency would no
> longer be able to do that -- including the volunteers. Now guess wht, they
> have very few volunteers and are having to build a new volunteer staff of
> those that want to help not those who are just there to get.
>
> Virginia
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