By: Ben Burns 08.15.2010

Just because an aging relative tells you “everything is fine” on the telephone, don’t assume it is. Go and check the cupboards.

That was the advice offered by Focus: Hope co-founder Eleanor Josaitis, speaking at the Grosse Pointe Senior Men’s Club recently.

“Hunger is still real and a number of seniors that I’m seeing are from Birmingham, Grosse Pointe, Farmington Hills, Bloomfield Township and Ann Arbor, all places you never expected.

“the call I get on a regular basis is ‘please don’t tell my kids I’m having a hard time. If I could have some food I would be OK, but I don’t want to be a burden.’

“Gentlemen, please – everything is not fine. I’ve got about 1,600 seniors who have no means of transportation and I have to deliver the food to them every month. so if you’ve got time to volunteer and you want to do it, please, I would welcome you.”

Josaitis and Focus: Hope co-founder, the late Father William Cunningham, made 32 trips to Washington to testify before House and Senate committees over five years before they won approval of the Commodity Supplemental Food Program, which distributes agricultural surpluses to needy women, children and seniors.read more…

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