Make your Valentine gift to the people of Haiti
February 12, 2010
Love is a verb. Take action.
Join the World Food Programme in their efforts to help sustain and support the people of Haiti.
Love is a verb. Take action.
Join the World Food Programme in their efforts to help sustain and support the people of Haiti.
The family feasts are finished and the parades wound down. We have gathered together to celebrate our blessings and the abundance in our lives.
This Thanksgiving and in the upcoming holiday season, please remember those who are less fortunate with a lasting Gift of Hope to the World Food Programme.
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This week as we prepare to give thanks for all our blessings, please take a minute to do something good.
Ten-month-old Allie Noelle Whaley won't have a first Thanksgiving or Christmas. Born with congenital mitral stenosis, a severe blockage of the heart's mitral valve, she died October 25, 2009.
The family has insufficient health care coverage and huge medical expenses.
In honor of Allie Noelle Whaley, Doc's Gun & Pawn (506 S. Memorial Drive, Greenville, NC 27834). is raffling a $1,000 Shopping Spree. Tickets are $5 and the drawing is December 11.
Anyone interested in contributing to The Allie Noelle Whaley Memorial Fund should contact:
The donation was announced today by the National Association for the Specialty Food Trade, the show’s organizer.
The Winter Fancy Food Show will take place from January 17 – 19, 2010, at Moscone Center, where more than 1,400 exhibitors will present 80,000 products from 50 countries. The donation will be made at the close of the trade event, the largest marketplace for specialty food on the West Coast.
For the second year, the NASFT will work with Feed the Hungry to collect and distribute specialty products to a network of community programs. Last year, hundreds of volunteers collected and dispersed more than three tractor-trailer loads of food, including top-quality chocolate, cheese, pasta sauces and beverages.
“With so many Americans experiencing food insecurity today, our exhibitors are especially eager to help alleviate hunger. We are pleased they can supply products that typically don’t flow into food pantries,” said Ann Daw, president of the NASFT.
Stefan Radelich, executive director of Feed the Hungry,
an international hunger relief organization, said the food from the
Fancy Food Show will be “a beacon of hope and encouragement.”
Last year exhibitors provided enough food to help more than 5,400 area residents. “When they open their grocery bags at home or in a shelter and find foods of the highest quality mixed in, it takes ‘somebody cares’ to a whole new level,” Radelich said.
The
NASFT, a not-for-profit trade association based in New York City, has a
long commitment to food-related charities.
This year marks the 20th year that the NASFT has worked with City Harvest, one of New York City’s largest anti-hunger organizations. Following its Summer Fancy Food Show, exhibitors donated more than 200,000 pounds of food last June and helped keep one food pantry from shutting down.
I write near constantly about good food. The preparation of a meal, the gathering together of people to share that meal - even if it's just two - is crucial to the fabric of our daily lives.
That's why I'd like to dedicate today's post to the people who don't have enough to eat. For those people - many of them children - having a meal is about survival.
According to the NY Coalition Against Hunger, there are an estimated 1.3 million New York households without adequate food resources, and one in 5 children go hungry.
No one should go without food.
CAMBA, a non-profit agency providing services to connect people with quality of life enhancing opportunities, is conducting their annual food and book drive March 9-13. I urge all to participate in this life-affirming drive.
Local donations can be picked up by making arrangements with Mary-Beth Shine at [email protected] or by calling 718.287.2600 x305. Or you may donate online.
Food collected will benefit CAMBA's emergency food pantry - one of the very few that offers participants choice, the option to shop for what they need. Books collected will be distributed to the men, women and children living in the organization's homeless shelters.