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Day to day happenings at the Prayer Vigil
March 18, 2009
Today the ISARC Multi-faith Prayer Vigil participants were joined by the Put Food in the Budget - Healthy Food Suppliment Campaign, who brought along soup as a lunch time meal for the hundreds of participants that came out.
The noon prayer time began with Rev. Susan Eagle, Chair of ISARC introducing the Prayer Vigil Campaign, inviting all participants to join in prayer, and then blessing the soup.
Prayers were than offered by religious leaders involved with The Multifaith Alliance to End Homelessness. They included: Pundit Eshwar Maharj-Doobay, Hindu Faith; Dharm Jain, Jain Faith; Rev. Karen Harrison, Buddhist Faith; Michael Creal, Anglican; Rev. G.A. Wenh-In Ng, United Church; and, Rev. Glen Eagle, United Church. Prayers were offered for the poor to have enough food and safe places to eat. Prayers were also offered for the courage, integrity and spiritual strength of the Members of the Provincial Parliament.
When noon prayers were finished, people enjoyed their lunch together and listened to short speeches by Dr. David McKeown, Toronto's Medical Officer of Health, the Stop Community Food Centre, Foodshare, the Social Planning Network of Ontario, and the Association of Local Public Health Agencies, all partners in The 25in5 Network for Poverty Reduction. Calls were made for a Healthy Food Supplement for all adults on social assistance of $100.00 per month per adult on Ontario Works (OW) or on Ontario Disability Support Program (ODSP).
Members of The Multifaith Alliance to End Homelessness stayed for the afternoon to offer prayers once an hour.
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