Funding to Replenish Sandy Food Donations
The grant will provide $75,000 to the New Jersey Department of Human Services.
The New Jersey Department of Human Services was awarded grant funding to help replenish food supplies used during Hurricane Sandy to feed low income, elderly residents, U.S. Sen. Frank Lautenberg, D-NJ, and Robert Menendez, D-NJ, announced Tuesday.
The $75,000 grant will be used to provide county Area Agencies on Aging with funds to replenish the supply of shelf-stable meals used during the storm to feed victims, a release from the senators' office said.
"This funding is another example of the federal government stepping up to take care of New Jersey in the wake of Superstorm Sandy," Lautenberg, a lead author of the Sandy relief legislation, said in a release. "Once Sandy struck, the State moved quickly to make sure the most vulnerable New Jerseyans didn’t go hungry, and this federal funding will help ensure that if another disaster strikes, we’ll be ready once again."
The grant is part of $60.2. billion Hurricane Sandy relief package HR 152 enacted by Congress in January.
ChiefWahoo
1:31 pm on Tuesday, March 12, 2013
Just don't hold your breath waiting for $1 from Christies wife.
Ron Bialowarczuk
3:05 pm on Tuesday, March 12, 2013
YEA!!! The lady in charge, with no experience , isn't waiting for her $160,000 salary. She is in it for the long run. Why wasn't that job advertized on carrer builder for all the unemployed to apply for!!!!!! NO EXPERIENCE NEEDED!!!!!
FAQall
4:27 pm on Tuesday, March 12, 2013
How many junkies will be inline waiting for a handout saying their victims of sandy when their victims of drug abuse. They should make u piss in a cup before getting a handout. So sick of seeing these junkies at our churches pretending to be victims.
ajoke
6:16 pm on Tuesday, March 12, 2013
" OUR CHURCHES" WOW God would be so proud of you judging people who may be down on their luck, I'AM SURE you all pray for all these Junkies In your Church right??
If someone is asking for help HELP them, They need it more then you.... why don't you ask Jesus about that... they are not asking for a handout they are asking for a helping hand. I guess you never Cried looking in your fridge wondering how you where going to feed your kids, wondering how you will survive anther day not eating
debra
4:59 pm on Tuesday, March 12, 2013
FAQall,do you donate your time at the food banks or soup kitchens? How do you know they are junkies,do you see them doing drugs, or are just assuming because of skin color and how they dress and look? I have volunteer at a few churches that have soup kitchens and i cant tell the druggies from the homeless i see them all as needing help and no where else to go to.what are you doing at church judging these people?
ajoke
6:11 pm on Tuesday, March 12, 2013
When I took my 13 yr old son to volunteer at visitation Church after sandy, sadly many of the people looking for help where our neighbors, our friends, my sons peers & their families, MANY working class families are in situation they never thought they would be, our family included, have to wait till tomorrow to buy a case of water... the difference is we may have to wait a day or so to buy something while many don't even have that .... Shame on all you judging
Nj Ghost
6:15 pm on Tuesday, March 12, 2013
"This funding is another example of the federal government stepping up to take care of New Jersey in the wake of Superstorm Sandy,"...YEA! $75,000 from over $60,000,000,000.00.......I laugh at them...That's the same as $75.00 from $60,000,000...what a joke!
Freetobeyouandme
6:57 pm on Tuesday, March 12, 2013
I'm confused. The money is being used to REPLACE meals which were on the shelf. Wouldn't the meals have been supplied to the feed those people if the storm had not hit? Where did the funds come from to buy the original meals and why was that source not used for the replenishment? On Lautenberg's website, he also invoked the effects of the sequester (which occurred weeks after the passing of the storm aid) as being thwarted by this allocation. This is not helpful; it is simply exploitation.