Serving hot meals to the elderly for 15-plus years [] S.O.M.E.

Published November 8, 2024

By Robert J. Hawkins.

We were mystified. One minute, Dr. Grace Lim, MD, is delivering her weekly health talk on Wednesday to the nearly 100 guests of So Others May Eat in the Parroquia de San Miguel courtyard. “Many of you only have each other,” she reminds the elderly Sanmiguelenses, all over the age of 65. “You need to watch out for each other.” A frail, elderly woman reaches up and asks for the microphone and Dr. Grace hands it to her.She turned to face the 20 or so volunteers waiting to serve the hot lunch to all the guests. “You are the reason that I come here every week,” she said. “Gracias. Gracias.”.

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SO OTHERS MAY EAT  ss a charitable organizatión founded by Joe and Antonette Lim in February 1989 . Each wednesday for the past 23 years something very unique and enpowering takes place in the charming hill town of San Miguel de Allende at the sunny courtyard behind the Parroquia de San Miguel Arcángel. Long tables covered with red and white checkered tablecloths are set up under laurel trees.

The tables are numbered according to age 65-95; the elders will be served fírst. Before the food is served, their thin old voices are lifted in a song of gratitude. Prayers precede a meal ofwarm tea or freshjuice laddled from white plástic buckets, bowl of chicken broth thick with vegetables and soy meat and a plate filled with warm tortillas, refried beans, rice, a littie piece of chicken, bread scattering of raw onions and tomatoes and a dallop of mexican mole sauce. Most of the old folks have travelled miles on foot from outside of town on canes and wooden walking sticks and arrived parched and hungry, this is the highlight of their week. As they entered , bent over with their walking sticks, clutching shawls crossing themselves they thanked all the volunteers with smiles.

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