@Dutchess_III The little girl I’m talking about is absolutely beautiful, a rose born into a family of thorns, alcoholics. Her brother is also developmentally disabled. She’s had a few surgeries over her 14 years and none of them completely fixed her deformed palate/ mouth area and she still ‘talks funny.’ And she’s at the age where kids make fun, she already has the family situation where they live in the sticks, sometimes in a camper on gma’s property with no running water. Clothes not good enough, food not good enough, mother batsh&t crazy and drunk, and then her beloved father drinks himself to death.
My mom works at a non-profit here in town and has tried to get charities and other non-profits interested but they are very restricted once they get government money. The local food bank can’t just bring a food truck to the office or the neighborhoods, I’ve asked. Instead the overweight employees take food home, fact.
As far as medical or doctors volunterring, I have to tell you that Springfield MO is a medical & college town, and I have NEVER seen an open call for doctors, ever. We did have one dental truck that people lined up for that I believe was open for a whole Saturday.
You guys get that I know a LOT of poor people. People that try and try and get knocked down over and over again. My mom busted her butt to get a Medicaid rep in to her non-profit to help these people figure out what medicaid will pay for because of all the misinformation, especially about dental. A lot of offices won’t even accept it because (I believe) it’s a really slow pay.
Honestly, I’m glad people help others in other countries, I think it’s wonderful, but I would like to see more Americans doing local work and helping the bridge people and the homeless, and the working poor who can’t afford to use the insurance they have because of the high deductibles (I’ll include myself in that category.)