for the past 25 years, currently serving as its director of volunteer services. The organization in New York state is part of, a nationwide network of more than 200 food banks serving every state in the United States. The past year has seen a change in volunteer opportunities, as well as a greater awareness of the issues of hunger, the faces of hunger and what hunger represents in our society.
We now have nationwide organizations such as Feeding America and its tremendous capabilities. But as we’ve gained that sophistication, we must never lose track of compassion. We also try to provide an education about the work we do here. Where we used to hear, “There are starving children in other countries,” there’s now also a much more insidious form of hunger. It doesn’t equate with starvation but it takes over almost every aspect of someone’s daily life.
. Those of us who have been involved with hunger relief have known for some time how fragile the links are when it comes to food security. People who used to donate could no longer do so; they were looking at how much food they had in their cupboards. When you think of all the people in the hospitality industry or the arts, you see they lost their main source of income and, for many of them, their supplemental source of income as well.
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