![]() ![]() We know that when nearly 18% of our North Carolina neighbors are food insecure-meaning that they don’t have consistent access to healthy, nutritious food-that we need to leverage multiple strategies to get food to people in need. Thousands of households utilize these pantries every month to supplement their groceries and make ends meet. Wake Forest University Provost Rogan Kersh led the final discussion and pledged to assemble the comments and present them to city officials and others in power who might be able to turn some of the recommendations into reality.The program also produces ready-to-heat meals for Second Harvest’s partner agency network as a supplement to the fresh fruit and vegetables, frozen meats, and staple food items Second Harvest rescues, inspects, and distributes across 18 counties of Northwest North Carolina every day. Train and enable church members with farming skills to teach people how to grow fruits and vegetables and cook them from their community gardens. Persuade local churches to add community gardens to their much-appreciated food pantries They included:īuild more community gardens as a means of engaging communities in addressing food insecuritiesĮstablish more grocery stores in poor neighborhoods and have as a goal for those stores to sell healthy foods The participants at "Feeding Change" discussed several possible solutions to solve the food gap. See a map of the area's food needs at Map the Food Gap, Second Harvest distributed more than 25 million pounds of donated, purchased and prepared foods, to a network of 400 partner programs in 18 counties around Winston Salem, including more than 100,000 children in fiscal year 2013-2014. "It's estimated that 1 in 6 people (more than 351,000) in this food bank's 18-county service area are food insecure, living with uncertainty about where their next meal will come from," according to the website. Second Harvest co-sponsored Feeding Change with Wake Forest University's Pro Humanitate Institute, and WFDD, 88.5, Wake Forest University's public radio station. Moderators at the tables kept the conversations focused and asked questions designed to facilitate the discussion.Ĭommenting on the mix of people who showed up for the event, Jenny Moore, public relations director for Second Harvest said, "It's dots connecting," Going from table to table, like civic minded speed daters, they:ĭiscussed ways to reduce stigmas associated with people who are poor and need of foodĮxchanged ideas on how to better engage the community to address food desertsĪddressed the short and long-term needs of the hungry. Organizers called the event Feeding Change: An Interactive Community Conversation on Hunger. They shared ideas on how to deal with the problem. area.Īt Wake Forest University's Innovation Quarter in downtown Winston Salem, academics, corporate leaders, small business men and women, politicians and people from organizations helping the poor sat across from people who had experienced what it was like to go hungry. Last week, Second Harvest partnered with 160 advocates to exchange ideas on how to combat hunger in the Winston Salem, N.C. Pursues partnerships with like-minded organizations. ![]() ![]() According to its website, the food bank:Īcquires and distributes food to supplement the food needs of faith and community-based organizations Īdvocates for the rights of hungry people The non profit Second Harvest Food Bank of Northwest North Carolina works to reduce hunger in northwestern North Carolina. Photo: Courtesy of Patricia Furnish Taking a bite out of hunger Photo: Courtesy of Patricia Furnish.Īttendees moved from table to table as they tackled difficult questions related to the issue of hunger. to discuss ways to deal with hunger in the region. People dedicated to helping the hungry gathered around tables at Wake Forest University's Innovation Quarter in Winston Salem, N.C. ![]()
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