Sister Lucy Poulin
by Robert Shetterly
Painting
"We must realize the truth of ourselves -- we are one human family. One a part of the other. My old work horse Teddy and the fancy registered horse visiting us had no trouble eating out of the same dish. We must discover the same."
Member and leader of Homeworkers Organized for More Employment; recognized for fighting unemployment, illiteracy, and despair among the rural poor in northern Maine.
"We must realize the truth of ourselves --- we are one human family. One a part of the other.
My old work horse Teddy and the fancy registered horse visiting us
had no trouble eating out of the same dish. We must discover the same."
- Sister Lucy Poulin -
Born in 1939, Sister Lucy is proof of the value and vibrancy that older persons can bring to their communities. Sister Lucy is the founder of H.O.M.E. (Homeworkers Organized for More Employment)
H.O.M.E. started as her convent's program to find markets for handiwork created by women from an economically poor area of Hancock County, Maine. It's grown into a 23 acre compound that provides a free health clinic, soup kitchen, food bank, homeless shelter, saw-mill, shingle-mill, greenhouse, farmers' market and store to sell goods hand-crafted by H.O.M.E. participants. H.O.M.E. has built more than 50 single-family homes for occupants who could not otherwise afford it.
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