There were rail-thin women whose bones were covered only by parchment thin skin and women who were mountains of flesh. Most heartbreaking were the children. Standing in line, they had to endure the gazes of the people locked away in their air-conditioned cars who zipped by on their way to important meetings over lunch. This rag-tag line ended abruptly at the door to the soup kitchen. Because the problem of hunger is so large, it can seem overwhelming.
Some people focus only on the abuses.
I always hear about the people with food stamps in line at the grocery store buying junk food and wasting money. We hear about how emergency food supplies occasionally go to waste or are stolen by corrupt officials. That happens too. Feeding the hungry takes many different forms these days. Soup kitchens, food pantries, education, political action, emergency relief, instruction in farming, even providing loans to small businesses.