If you have ever seen boxes stocked with toiletry items or nonperishable items at Muldrow, Oklahoma, you may have bumped into the blessing boxes of the community leaders in Muldrow. The concept is very simple -- it encourages people to put and take something as they delighted, providing help to people in need within the community.
About 654,640 Oklahomans are food-insecure or don't have consistent access to enough food for healthy, active lifestyle, according to OKPOLICY.ORG. Oklahomans are more likely to be food-insecure than most Americans, the report continues.
Community leaders at Muldrow have launched blessing boxes to help resolve the hunger problem. Through this movement, destitute residents in Muldrow can have access at any time to food supplies and toiletries catered by good hearted people in the community. The boxes are situated in the entrance of the Muldrow Park and next to the police station, according to 5news.
Blessing boxes were supplied with toiletry items and nonperishable goods. According to Lori Freeman, one of the supporters of the movement, "Anyone in the community who wants to put something in can put something in and anyone who needs it can take it out," via Fox29.com.
And on the first night of the movement, this happened according to Bayleigh Click, other supporters of "blessing boxes" movement: "The first night that we put it up, I came back the next evening to check on it, and there were several items that were gone, and there were several new items ... so it was super super exciting because I knew somebody had been there, and I knew somebody had used it, and I knew somebody was giving back," she also told Fox29.com.
Elated with the outcome of their movement, Lori and Bayleigh are both hoping that others will be inspired also to put up their own blessing boxes. "I feel like everybody at some point might need a little bit of help in their life. Like I said, I hope nobody is ashamed to use it. It's a blessing, it's here to take ... take as much as you need," Bayleigh said in a report at Fox29.com.
