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Growing up in a financially constrained household with nine siblings on the small Caribbean Island of Trinidad and Tobago profoundly shaped my dedication to serving others. Despite limited resources, we sustained ourselves by cultivating crops, raising chickens and ducks, and participating in a community garden. Our village operated on a cooperative system where shared responsibilities ensured the well-being of the chicken coops.

The village ethos of “each one feed one” ensured that no one went hungry and fostered a strong sense of communal support. Upon immigrating to America at the age of ten, we encountered a different mindset—one that emphasized individualism. Financial struggles persisted, but my mother’s unwavering commitment to providing a hot meal every day sustained us. Dining out was an unaffordable luxury, yet she made certain that we never went without food.

Observing families like ours struggling, and seeing individuals begging for food on the streets, fueled my determination to address food insecurity. Joining the military as a young adult further opened my eyes to the stark contrast between the staggering amount of food wasted daily and the hunger that persisted in nearby communities. Legal constraints prevented us from redistributing excess food to shelters, deepening my awareness of the broken systems surrounding hunger.

While stationed abroad, I realized that homelessness and hunger were not just American problems—they were global crises. That revelation became the foundation of my lifelong commitment to this work.

Upon retiring from the military, I made a promise to use my life and leadership to make a meaningful difference. That promise drives me to confront the realities of hunger, homelessness, and systemic neglect head-on. Through Feed My People, I am raising awareness and mobilizing communities to act—to feed, to serve, and to restore hope through our mobile feeding ministry.

How interesting that, after carrying this ministry in my spirit for three years, I would personally encounter the very face of what drives me. This work became even more deeply personal in February 2025, just three months before completing my academic journey devoted to this mission. I discovered that a family member in hometown of New Jersey—someone dear to me—was experiencing homelessness. Even when I didn’t know where he was, I was determined to find him. The heartbreaking truth is that when we did, he chose to remain on the streets. He didn’t look like the stereotype of someone who is homeless—no odor, no dirty or wrinkled clothes—yet he was living a life many would never see or understand.

His story reflects the reality of a broken system. After earning slightly above the qualifying income threshold, he was stripped of the mental health care that had stabilized him for more than fifteen years. Without access to his once-a-month Abilifyinjection and essential medical treatment, his condition declined rapidly. No longer able to maintain the two jobs he was working just to survive; he lost his apartment and ultimately found himself on the streets unreachable. Within nine months, he became the very face of what I call a “Starving Soul in a Shattered System”

This painful experience ignited a deeper fire within me to keep pressing forward in the mission God has entrusted to my hands. It reaffirmed why Feed My People exists—to stand in the gap for those who have fallen through the cracks of a fractured system and to restore dignity where society has looked away.  Even in my efforts to reach out for help—contacting psychological services, law enforcement, and political leaders who eagerly seek your vote during election season but become unreachable when real lives are at stake—I found myself both disappointed and disheartened. Yet, that disappointment only deepened my determination. It reminded me that silence and inaction cannot be the Church’s response to human suffering. We must be present, persistent, and prophetic in our pursuit of justice, compassion, and change.

I invite you to take the time to read my book, Starving Souls in a Shattered System. It is more than words on a page—it is a clarion call to awareness, action, and accountability. I guarantee it will challenge and charge you to move beyond empathy into engagement. You cannot read it and walk away unchanged.

For as Matthew 25:35–40 reminds us, and I paraphrase:
“For I was hungry, and you gave Me something to eat; I was a stranger, and you welcomed Me in. Whatever you did for one of the least of these, you did for Me.”

This is the heart of the mission—and the movement—of Feed My People, which gave birth to Starving Souls in a Shattered System. It is a call to solidarity and compassion in action—a reminder that our faith is best expressed not in words alone, but in how we care for those whom the world too often forgets.

This is why we feed, this is why we serve, and this is why we will never stop — because every soul deserves to be seen, nourished, and loved.  💜🧡💜✨🧡💜🧡