Caroline dyer
Reporter
In Tennessee,
there are hundreds of people who are forced to go to bed hungry due to the fact
that they lack the funds to acquire sufficient food. It is Second Harvest’s
mission to put an end to that. Some of these programs include Food for Kids that sends kids home from
school with backpacks full of kid friendly food and The Food Rescue Program that gathers prepared and perishable food
from local restaurants, schools and grocery stores to distribute to the hungry.
The Rural Route program takes food to
pantries and schools that lack proper equipment or funds to obtain it
themselves. These are merely a few techniques that Second Harvest has used to
positively affect the population of hungry people in our state.
Several
Knox County high schools including South Doyle have decided to give back to the
community by participating in a food drive to collect canned foods, peanut
butter and cereal to donate to second harvest. In fact, South Doyle will be
competing with Seymour to see who can accumulate more food to donate to the
program.
“I
think that the fact that we are competing with Seymour is great because the
rivalry between us will cause both schools to donate more food and we will be
able to help more people,” says sophomore, Jullianna Justice.
There are two
large blue bins in the main office where you can donate any non-perishable
foods to feed hungry children, adults and the elderly in Tennessee.
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