In response to “Value-Added Food for Hungry Families”: Does your host campus participate in any annual food drives? What role do you think these annual projects play in addressing the year-round issue of food (in)security in our communities? What additional projects or initiatives might a campus consider engaging in to deepen their commitment to issues of food (in)security?
Yes, LCCC holds MANY food drives and other item drives for local NPO’s. Our SIFE Team actually commits to collecting around 20,000 pounds of food for a competition. We are in the works of trying to organize these efforts to make them more efficient and make sure LCCC does not get, “collection out”. These annual projects help address food issues most definitely in the short term effects, but in long term, it might actually be hurting it… an idea I have been mulling over. If you want to fight long term we need to look at policy and programmatic changes. Hand outs, do not work in addressing long term poverty. It hurts it. So what could the campus do? Research some changes into the system or road blocks. Then go about trying to find ways to address this. Perfect project for Service Learning students.
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