Mother Wright

Mary Ann Wright (July 11, 1921 - May 7, 2009), known as Mother Wright, was an humanitarian activist living and working in Oakland, California. She was born into a Roman Catholic African-American family in New Orleans and raised in the small town of Darlington, Louisiana. In 1950 she left her husband and moved to California with her nine children. She later remarried and had three more children.^[1] She worked two jobs to help support her family. In 1980 she decided to help feed poor people after, she said, she received a vision in a dream. She started out by serving one meal a week, paid for from her Social Security income. With help from others, among them grocers, produce merchants, the leaders of local churches and community groups, and city officials, this effort grew to become the Mother Mary Ann Wright Foundation, which feeds more than 450 people a day on a budget of $137,000 a year.^[2] As well as helping people in Oakland her foundation has provided help to people in Russia and Vietnam, and founded a school in Kenya.^[3] In 2005, Wright was inducted into the Hall of Fame for Caring Americans, by the Caring Institute.^[4]

References

1. ^ “I Heard That”: Remembering Mother Wright - Oakland’s Mother Theresa, BeyondChron, May 23, 2009
2. ^ Mother Wright, tireless advocate for poor, dies, San Francisco Chronicle, May 9, 2009
3. ^ Mother Wright, 'angel to the hungry,' dies at 87, Oakland Tribune, May 8, 2009
4. ^ Oakland humanitarian earns honor, San Francisco Chronicle, December 16, 2005

External links

• Mother Mary Ann Wright Foundation

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Name	Wright, Mother
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Date of birth	July 11, 1921
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Date of death	May 7, 2009
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