Hunger Helpers

The West Central FFA Chapter will be participating in a program to help solve the hunger problem in our community.  We’ve been busy in the greenhouse caring for more than 2,000 vegetable plants.  We’ll be giving the plants away!  The only string attached is that you agree to donate any excess produce you raise to some one in need.  You could donate to a local food pantry, church, senior citizen’s center, school lunch program, or a neighbor in need.  Please help us to provide an accurate recording of our impact in the community by recording when, to whom, what, and how much you donate by using the link above.

Vegetable plants will be available for pick-up on Wednesday May 13, 2015.  Please stop in at the greenhouse and complete a quick data collection form.  We’ll be tracking your donations using this website this year.  Just click on the “Log Your Donations” link on the menu bar above.

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The West Central FFA chapter has been awarded $2500 as part of the inaugural FFA:  Food For All program. The nationwide program provides grant money to local FFA chapters to support year-long service-learning projects focused on developing and implementing sustainable hunger relief projects.

The West Central FFA plans to help fight hunger by implementing several projects.  Providing vegetable plants for family gardens with the understanding that extra produce grown by families will be donated to a local food pantry, the senior citizens center or the school lunch program.  Secondly, planning and implementing a back pack program to provide nutritional weekend meals for children who qualify for free or reduced lunch in the school district.   With 27% of the K-12 student population qualifying for free or reduced lunch, hunger is a problem in our community.  We hope that our activities will increase awareness about hunger in our state and community.

The FFA: Food For All grant program is administered by the National FFA Organization, with funding provided by Farmers Feeding the World and the Howard G. Buffett Foundation. The program provided $330,000 to FFA chapters in 41 states. More information about the program can be found at www.FFA.org/foodforall.

Stay tuned to the Hunger Helpers website for more information as plans are made and implementation begins.

Welcome to Hunger Helpers!

The Hunger Helpers initiative is the result of a grant received from the National FFA Organization, Howard G. Buffet Foundation and Farmers Feed the World.  The grant is a Living 2 Serve project.

Stay tuned to this page for Hunger Helpers news and events.