{"id":13818,"date":"2012-08-29T06:25:58","date_gmt":"2012-08-29T10:25:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theredphoenixapl.org\/?p=13818"},"modified":"2012-08-29T06:25:58","modified_gmt":"2012-08-29T10:25:58","slug":"philadelphia-woman-faces-charges-for-feeding-poor-children","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/redphoenix.news\/es\/2012\/08\/philadelphia-woman-faces-charges-for-feeding-poor-children\/","title":{"rendered":"Philadelphia woman faces charges for feeding poor children"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/redphoenixnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/mcnewgetty-imagesafp-david-n.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-13820\" title=\"mcnewgetty-imagesafp-david.n\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/redphoenixnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/mcnewgetty-imagesafp-david-n.jpg?resize=370%2C277\" alt=\"\" width=\"370\" height=\"277\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">A woman may be fined $600 for each day she provided free food to children in a poor Philadelphia neighborhood for the past few months.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">Angela Prattis, 41, of Chester Township has been distributing free healthy lunches in a neighborhood that has a per capita income of $19,000 a year.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">Prattis made no money from the meal distribution, and gave out food provided by the Archdiocese of Philadelphia. The \u201clunch lady\u201d ran the charity out of her garage, to which about 60 children came, five days a week.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">After the city council was alerted of the free lunches, it ruled that she would have to acquire a variance to give away food next summer \u2013 or pay a fine of $600 a day. The council considers Prattis\u2019 deed a zoning violation. Three months of distributing food would instigate a fine of more than $50,000.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">\u201cIt\u2019s not like I\u2019m selling food,\u201d she objected.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">\u201cThese kids are hungry. I\u2019m not tearing down the community. I\u2019m keeping the children out of harm\u2019s way,\u201d she said in a Fox News interview.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">But a variance to distribute food would also be costly. Administrative fees for a variance would cost up to $1,000.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">\u201cYou have houses here. The roofs are falling in, and they could be focused on a lot more serious issues than me feeding children,\u201d Prattis said in response to the city council\u2019s ruling.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">The woman has three children of her own, takes care of a foster child and runs a neighborhood basketball program .<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">The township intitally threatened Prattis with fines for this summer\u2019s food distribution, but withdrew them after news organizations began asking questions. Now, the township is allowing the woman to keep distributing food cost-free until August 24 \u2013 but next summer will be a lot more costly. Prattis told local news crews that she will continue helping her community.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">\u201cTell me this program isn\u2019t needed,\u201d she said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#0000ff;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/rt.com\/usa\/news\/philadelphia-woman-food-prattis-966\/\"><span style=\"color:#0000ff;\">Fuente<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A woman may be fined $600 for each day she provided free food to children in a poor Philadelphia neighborhood for the past few months&#8230;<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":38457,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[152,181,185,97],"tags":[229,347],"class_list":["post-13818","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-economy","category-labor","category-prisons","category-us-news","tag-economic-exploitation","tag-workers-struggle"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/redphoenix.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/mcnewgetty-imagesafp-david.n_13818_2e836.jpg?fit=370%2C277&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/redphoenix.news\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13818","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/redphoenix.news\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/redphoenix.news\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redphoenix.news\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redphoenix.news\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13818"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/redphoenix.news\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13818\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redphoenix.news\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38457"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/redphoenix.news\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13818"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redphoenix.news\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13818"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redphoenix.news\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13818"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}