the most important thing to matthew henson neighborhood association is matthew henson elementary school. >> amen. >> and our children. that is our most important priority. we're so happy to have our illustrious vice principal here and on your right side the lady who handles the food pantry and we have had five tractor-trailers full of food. we had just about every member of the ravens here and had they not been here, we may still be try togs unload those tractor-trailers. within two hours each day that we did it -- we got to say to the principal to the vice principal to the great staff that's here, within two hours the food was gone. every day. every day. they are still doing this. because our neighbors have nowhere to go. even little things like a diaper. they have no stores to go to. we have stores -- i shouldn't say too much being done illegally. they are selling pampers individually. they are breaking open the packs and actually selling it because that's how desperate the neighbors are. >> is there any pharmacists? >> no pharmacy. we have no health center. no senior center. we have

matthew henson is in a neighborhood called winchester. we are abetting to sam tom and one of the biggest challenges we've had since the civil unrest depending what you want to call it is a significant number of our faith leaders, a significant number of elected officials really were cognizant of the area we are rid. they've gone and we don't begin but we had 14 businesses damaged during the riots in our neighborhood. we had my businesses in our neighborhood relay and then sam tom did. most everyone felt when i got to northern fulton we had one of the owners of one of the properties that the rest of the community had not been here. we actually had 14 businesses. but made our situation a little bit different and a little more damaging as we have no food market share. we have not had a food market since october and ironically one of the small convenience stores definitely wasn't a food market in a fresh fruits, vegetables, but it did have built, orange juice bread. that is one of the stores that also got hit. one of my long-time friends who

matthew henson is in a neighborhood called winchester. we are a budding to what is called -- and one of the biggest challenges we've had in the last few weeks since the civil unrest or rides, depending on what you want to call it, is that a significant number of our faith leaders, our elected officials really want -- were not cognizant of this area that we are in. many of them have gone to north pennsylvania. we don't -- but we have 14 businesses damaged during the riots just in our neighborhood. we actually have more businesses in our neighborhood ruined then sentelle did. but because the largest damage with did was done there, most everyone thought when they went up north -- and we have one of the properties here from them -- that the rest of the community had not been hit. we actually had 14 businesses but what made our situation a little bit different and i guess a little more damaging as we have no food marketeer. we have not had a food market since october. ironically, one of the small convenience stores -- it wasn't a food market,

the most important thing to matthew henson neighborhood association is matthew henson elementary school. >> amen. >> and our children. that is our most important priority. we're so happy to have our illustrious vice principal here and on your right side the lady who handles the food pantry and literally we had five tractor trailers full of food. we had just about every member of the ravens here and had they not been here, we may still be try to unload those tractor-trailers. within two hours, each day that we did it -- we got to say to the principal, to the vice principal to the great staff that's here, within two hours the food was gone. every day. every day. they are still doing this. because our neighbors have nowhere to go. even little things like a diaper. they have no stores to go to. we have stores -- i shouldn't say too much being done illegally. they are selling pampers individually. they are breaking open the packs and actually selling it because that's how desperate the neighbors are. >> is there any pharmacists? >> no pharmacy. we have no health center. no senior center. we

the most important thing to matthew henson neighborhood association is matthew henson elementary school. >> amen. >> and our children. that is our most important priority. we're so happy to have our illustrious vice principal here and on your right side the lady who handles the food pantry and literally we had five tractor trailers full of food. we had just about every member of the ravens here and had they not been here, we may still be try to unload those tractor-trailers.

matthew henson is in the neighborhood called winchester. we are budding to what is called save them 's.'s. one of the biggest challenges we have had in the last few weeks is a civil unrest depending on what you want to call it is a significant number of our faith leaders to my significant number of our elected officials really were not cognizant of this area that we are in. many have gone to northern pennsylvania, gone to northern bolton. we don't begin until fulton we have 14 businesses damaged during our neighborhood. we had more businesses in our neighborhood ruined. but because the largest damage was done most everyone felt we have one of the owners of one of the properties here that the rest of the community had not been hit. we had 14 businesses. what made our situation different and i guess a little more damaging is we had no food market here. we have not had a food market since october. one of the small convenience stores did not have fresh fruit or vegetables or chicken. he came down the street and had a very perplexing look. i've

one of the greatest things that has happened is matthew henson elementary school. not only because they are educating children, but they have for almost two years been feeding people out of their food pantry. the lady sitting on your other side is the one who does this day in day out, month in month out. how does she do it? i don't know. she need to quadruple her salary. hopefully something on north avenue hears this. when we looked at it we said how do we get service snzs, food, necessities, toothpaste toilet paper, diapers for children when we have no place here to get it? none. and what we were seeing was that everybody was at north and pennsylvania but we had not seen anyone here. it's not that we are pointing fingers or angry or upset. we just had to tell it like we saw it. we didn't see any of the elected owe fishes. when we began to call the officials, we have been in your neighborhood. i said you have seen this store or that store? no, we haven't seen these stores. things have been real tough for us, because we didn't have a food market in the beginning. th

we can't get to matthew henson don't have a state, federal state, federal, or city agency anywhere. whenever we have to have meetings we have to beg the school will we have them in the street. we we have no place to go. more money is coming in for summer jobs. unemployment doubles anything else in baltimore city. we are saying and are glad to hear it. look at the communities 1st that are already unemployed. you know, it is great that all of our kids get some summer job. we're saying we are almost double the negative of any other community's. we have no mental health committee. in zip code 21217, 21216 we have the highest return rate of former felons floor of the highest return rates of folks that have been addicted that come into our community. neighbors, friends, family's. we welcome family's. we welcome them, but we are inundated with everything that is negative and not enough that is positive. i no i have been going to five. >> no, this is helpful. i was going to share with you a study that was done in baltimore about a year and a half ago. they did a study of life expectancy by