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John Lieferman BBQ Pork Ribs 22 Pineapple Margarita Always see your healthcare provider before beginning a self-treatment program. @LifeSource_Foods Hot Food By Ben Martin Horst · Editor Photos by Jeremy Scott AsWarm the COVID-19 pandemic eats deeper into the economy,Hearts food insecurity is on the minds of many of us. But for Salem’s unsheltered community, not knowing where one’s next meal is going to come from is nothing new. LifeSource’s Jeremy Scott and his wife, Jennifer Dziubanek, have been providing meals to the unsheltered community. I sat down with them over Zoom to talk about their work and motivations, the resources available to houseless people in Salem, and the effects of COVID-19 on homelessness. eremy is LifeSource’s “they’re not usually hot meals. food in someone’s belly assistant grocery We just wanted to reach out and hopefully helps them help manager; Jennifer is a provide a hot meal to folks who themselves,” Jeremy says. social worker in a might not otherwise get it.” “We’d sit there and hang out Jresidential care program working Jeremy and Jennifer made with them for an hour or with adolescents impacted by soups, stews, and chili in their so, put warm food in their mental health issues and their slow cooker, and began serving bellies whenever possible, families. After moving to Salem food near one of Salem’s large and just listen and recognize from Arkansas, the couple was tent camps. that they’re part of our struck by the sheer number of “At first it was completely Jenn’s community. I think that’s people they saw who didn’t have idea, but the very first time we the most important homes. After some discussion did it,” Jeremy notes, “I was like thing: they just want to be last fall, they decided to use ‘This is amazing, we cannot miss recognized. Just because the resources they had at their a Saturday.’ We had the belief that they’re unsheltered disposal: food from LifeSource if you put hot food in somebody’s doesn’t mean they’re and a conviction that, as Jennifer belly, they might make a better not a part of our says, “every human should be decision that night than they community.” treated as such and deserves a hot might have otherwise. Or they’ll “Or less than,” m e a l .” just be happier.” says Jennifer. “A lot of these great “Our physical health is greatly “Or less organizations out there that tied to our mental health,” adds than,” provide food to the unsheltered Jennifer. “The food we put in our Jeremy or the food-insecure folks bodies affects our mental health agrees. is typically stuff that can be either for the positive or the “Just sustained without having to negative.” be refrigerated,” Jennifer says, “Putting hot, organic, quality 4 · News in Natural ◄ Donating food to the Union Gospel Mission in Salem because we have a house doesn’t make Mission, the ARCHES Project, and employment and many of the economic me any better than them. They just want the HOME Youth & Resource Center relief measures begin to expire, people to understand that..” (area organizations that offer services many people who have never been But this spring Jennifer and Jeremy to the unhoused community), Jeremy unsheltered will now be unsheltered. realized they had a problem. “Then and Jennifer are poised to start cooking “It’s not that they don’t have skills to we learned that it was illegal," Jeremy hot meals again, this time under the work,” she says, “or that they don’t recalls. "It had been illegal before we auspices of the ARCHES Project. want to work, but they just can’t work even started. The City of Salem had I asked how others might be able to because the coronavirus has put them made it illegal mainly based on trash. contribute. out of a job. The unsheltered population Spotlight on We’d been hanging out and trying to “Volunteering is always the number is going to increase and we’re going to collect the trash and do whatever we one thing,” Jeremy says immediately. be kicking more people out into the BOIRON could to keep it clean, even before we “There are so many needs for streets in the coming fall and winter realized that it was illegal. Once we volunteering, whether it’s at the Mission months. realized it was illegal, that was about or at ARCHES, or any of that. Money is Jeremy notes that voting for the same time—late January, early always awesome: they will always take politicians who take homelessness February—when COVID hit. With Jenn your money, and they will always take seriously and adopt a Housing First Arnicare®: We take care of it, it takes care of you. working with a vulnerable population, your packaged, quality food donations. model is one of the most important we decided let’s take some time off and Like recently, I went and gave probably steps toward housing the unsheltered Delivering high-quality Arnicare starts in a field of Arnica montana plants in the French Alps, usually in early summer. figure out how to do this correctly.” 300 pounds of food to the Mission. community. “We’re doing this wrong,” Specialized harvesters carefully handpick this mountain daisy the same way founders Jean and Henri Boiron did in the 1930s. Jeremy notes that some members Those are the easy ways.” he says. “We’ve been doing this wrong Within 48 hours, the fresh plants arrive at Boiron’s laboratory. At the lab, a passionate team of botanists, technicians, and of the unsheltered community have “I also think,” says Jennifer, “there’s for so long. We need to put more money pharmacists transforms this plant into one of today’s most relied upon homeopathic pain relievers. troubled histories with institutions, something to be said for when you see into mental health, more money into or even just the inside of buildings, so unsheltered folks…to stop and say hi rehabilitating people and actually giving Boiron continuously strives to improve its environmental stewardship by focusing on four specific areas: cultivating fair trade “it felt so good being so organic in the and connect.” them a home.” practices; minimizing environmental impact; ensuring quality ingredients; and creating responsible packaging. beginning, just doing it out of the back “Look people in the eye,” says Jeremy, “It’s an economic issue,” puts in of our car and...” “don’t ignore them, even if they’re Jennifer. “Mortgage and rents are “And meeting them where they’re at,” asking for money and you don’t have increasing, and people’s wages are not. Jennifer finishes his thought. money to give them, or don’t want to You’ve got this unbalance of people not “We really enjoyed doing it outdoors,” give them money, just say hi to them getting paid an adequate wage to where Jeremy chimes back in, “but now that’s and say, ‘I hope you’re doing well.’” they can stay in their home and eat and really not possible.