Because of you, more children will start the school day ready to learn, without the pang of hunger as a distraction. Our Back-to-School campaign reminds us that along with pencils and paper, children need a daily supply of food to take on new concepts, run on playgrounds, and socialize more successfully.
Our Community Health and Agriculture Education teams have collaborated to develop the new Food Shuttle Academy, an online learning platform with free, self-paced lessons on health, nutrition, agriculture, and more!
Our Spring Match challenge, made possible by generous funders, including SOLV Energy and the Mead Family Foundation, exceeded the $105,000 goal, raising an additional $70,000 to erase hunger!
Love, Tito’s has a heart for community gardens and increasing access to fresh, healthy foods. Their philanthropic Love, Tito’s Block to Block program, reconnects neighborhoods and creates community gardens and farms throughout the United States. Our hearts are in full bloom knowing that our Camden Street Garden will be the next beneficiary of Block to Block, allowing neighbors with mobility challenges to access our many activities more easily.
Nearly one year ago, I wrote my first newsletter to you and thanked you for your warm welcome and your continued commitment to our mission here at Inter-Faith Food Shuttle. At that time, we were at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, witnessing the pain and sadness in the aftermath of the events in Minneapolis, where thousands of our neighbors found themselves in a very dark situation. One year ago, I embraced that challenge knowing we had your continued support, and today, I continue to be grateful.
Elvin Birth, who is 95 years old, left Murphey School three years ago and today lives with his daughter, Terri, in Timberlake. He never forgot the feeling of support he received from those monthly deliveries of food and human contact. Elvin wanted a way to give something back, and this month he and Terri paid a visit to the Food Shuttle Farm and made a very generous donation of $65,000.
The partnership between the Carolina Hurricanes Foundation and the Food Shuttle is entering the second of a three-year agreement that sets its sights on tackling the issue of child hunger in rural communities and is supported through the aptly named GOAL Grant with generous total funding of $150,000.
It is wonderful to see the roll out of the COVID-19 vaccine as it becomes available to each of you. Maybe you are looking forward to expanding your travel or simply embracing your loved ones again. But, as the world continues to return to some sense of normalcy, there is still much work to do so that families in need can put a warm, nutritious meal on the table.
When Mr. Terry Bland’s sixth-grade class at Envision Science Academy in Wake Forest was asked to research the United Nations 17 Sustainable Development Goals, the goal of Zero Hunger stood out to them. The students focused on the goal of reducing the amount of people who suffer from hunger around the world from 690 million to none and concentrated their efforts on food insecurity in North Carolina.
