Empty Bowl Event to benefit hunger relief agencies in Worcester
Exhibit Area, Student Center, 11:30 a.m.-2:00 p.m.
Panel: Reaching the Goal to End Childhood Hunger by 2015
November 10th 2-4:30 p.m. Blue Lounge
Help us End Hunger NOW ! "Empty Bowl" event to benefit hunger relief. Buy a bowl, feed the community! Raffle, games, speaker, (Congressman McGovern), food, fun and more! Please Join us to help fight hunger!
Panel 2:00 -3:30
Join the experts as they discuss strategies for Ending Childhood Hunger by the year 2015. Speakers include;
Jean McMurray, Worcester County Food Bank. Jean will give an overview of hunger in the Worcester area, will mention “Kid’s Café” and will end on an advocacy note.
Angela Beeler, pediatrician at UMASS will focus on the ways hunger and food insecurity impact children’s health and well being and will discuss the ways the medical community is trying to alleviate child hunger.
Donna Lombardi, WPS School Nutrition, will discuss the initiatives underway to improve the nutrition of school breakfast and lunch and progress on universal breakfast.
Sharon Driscoll, Project Bread, will focus on Project Bread’s Child Hunger initiatives and ways in which these dovetail with the President’s Ending Child Hunger by the year 2015.
Kwame Appiah from WIC will discuss the reauthorization of WIC and the many changes currently underway in that program.
Amy Navin, Brigham Hill Farm, will discuss the involvement of schoolchildren in volunteering at the farm, and also learning more about hunger and nutrition.
Liz Sheehan, Hunger Free and Healthy & Worcester Food Policy Council, will view child hunger from a community perspective and discuss hopeful strategies toward ending child hunger on a neighborhood level