Brown bags fill needs and bellies
For some, thanks is sandwiched between family, gifts of dinner
By Kathryn Garcia Caller-Times
November 25, 2005
(Excerpt)

Tears welled up in 47-year-old Amelia Salinas' eyes as she watched her two sons, 9-year-old Adrian and 12-year-old Jose, accept a
turkey and ham sandwich from a Brown Bag Challenge volunteer Thursday morning. "We don't have enough money for a turkey dinner.
We're going to eat here," said Salinas' husband, Enrique, 48, as he sat on a curb on Leopard Street near Crosstown Expressway
holding a brown bag that held his and his family's Thanksgiving meal - two sandwiches in each, one peanut butter and jelly and one
ham and turkey. "They are saints," said Amelia Salinas, who recently moved back to Corpus Christi from Dallas after she left her job
with the school district to care for her husband, who is fighting diabetes and a heart condition. Members of the Salinas family were
among 150 people touched by 10 Brown Bag Challenge volunteers, who handed out the paper bags decorated with the phrase, 'Jesus
loves you' to the needy Thursday on streets near City Hall.

"It's just kind of strange to have someone come up to you and give you something for no reason," Norbert Noyola said. "I live on the
streets when I don't have my usual work and this is an unusual thing to happen in the course of the day."
The Brown Bag Challenge is
100% volunteer driven.
The Brown Bag Challenge is a
volunteer movement in
Corpus Christi, Texas, which
focuses on helping those less
fortunate and the homeless
community.
The Brown Bag Challenge is a
grass-roots operation that
advocates for the homeless
men, women, and children in
the Coastal Bend area.
Each month the Brown Bag
Challenge volunteers hit the
streets to provide  lunches
and valuable resources to
those living on the streets or
near homelessness.
Since 1999.
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each bag contains:
United Way Information
"Street Sheet", P&J
sandwich, drink, chips,
fruit, cookies, candy,
toiletries, messages of
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