So Others May Eat [] S.O.M.E.

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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