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Dear friends who have a heart for the poor:
The HOPE Center is located in East Fort Worth where there is a high percentage of poverty in our city. Over 4 million (4,017,110) individuals live in Dallas and Tarrant Counties and 15.4%, 604,328 live below the poverty level.
The HOPE Center provided a week of groceries for over 50,000 individuals last year. Please help us double this in this next year. This was for only a week...these families need food every week....every day.
What does Poverty look like in dollars and cents? The chart below shows the income "before taxes" that over 60,432 in the DFW/Fort Worth Mextroplex receive.
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Number of
persons in
Household
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48 States & D.C.
Annual Income
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Monthly
Income
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1
2
3
4
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$10,400
14,000
17,600
21,200
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$866
1,166
1,466
1,766
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5
6
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24,800
28,400
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2,066
2,366
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7
8
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32,000
35,600
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2,666
2,933
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For each additional person, add $3,600
Can you imagine paying rent, car payment, gas, utilities, food, clothes prescription drugs, etc on this kind of money? Something has to give, and it is usually FOOD and CLOTHES. Great hunger exist right here in the DFW Metroplex.
Our mission is to feed the hungry children and families in our cities (Fort Worth and Dallas). This mission is TOO big for us to accomplish alone but it’s NOT to big for our communities, if we work together to reach these families in need. There is enough food to go around if we work together to do something about it.
In the news a few weeks ago there was a man that was struck by a “hit and run” car and left dying in the street unconscious. That was bad enough, but what was equally appalling was that NO ONE stopped and went over to help him. They kept walking down the sidewalk talking as if nothing had happened! Cars drove “around” him as he lay in the street, one motorcycle rider rode all the way around him to “look” but didn’t stop. NO ONE STOPPED to help. NO one reached out to touch him…they just kept walking, talking and driving…as if NOTHING had happened.
That is how many of our families are treated every day who live in poverty in our cities. The need it there, children and elderly are innocent victims suffering sever hunger, yet many of us keep “walking”, “talking”, and “driving” around our cities as if nothing was wrong. Something tragic is happening daily right here in the DFW Metroplex, in the lives of poor families who suffer hunger.
The HOPE Center is an organization that HAS STOPPED, and gotten involved and is doing something about this great need. We know that there are many individuals who would like to STOP to help but don’t know how to get involved. The HOPE Center has many ways you can “be on the front line” in helping the poor.
We are committed to empowering people to DREAM and have HOPE of getting out of POVERTY. First they must be FED, then they can be LED.
Through our educational programs and networking with other organizations that provide training we are helping those in poverty prepare themselves to get better jobs so they can have a better future.
Thank you in advance for your help.
Jo Ann Reyes
President
3625 E. Loop 820 S. Fort Worth, TX 76119
fax 817-451-1945
fwhopecenter@sbcglobal.net
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