Lions 105CE Hunger
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Hello, my name is Lion Chris Hibbert.
I am serving as your District Hunger Officer for the second year running. I am also serving as MD Hunger Chairperson and as your 2VDG. So hopefully you will see me around with various hats on! I have a passion for service and have identified some high impact opportunities for Lions in the area of food surplus. In September 2018 PDG Elaine Kitchen and I headed up a small team of Lions from both 105E and 105EA to deliver an event called Lions Feeding the 5000. |
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The event was an incredible success, feeding over 4000 people in four hours for free, using food that would have wasted. We ‘reached’ over 50,000 people through social media and even got on the regional news.
One difficulty for this project was getting enough food on the day, even though we knew that food surplus is prolific. To address this a project entitled ‘The Lions Gleaning Hub – 105CE’ has been created.
This provides an opportunity for Lions and members of the public to volunteer for a few hours rescuing surplus fruit and/or veg and redistributing it across the country to where it is needed. In 2019, we rescued and redistributed 16,000 kg of pumpkins and squashes.
It is my hope that we can glean pumpkins again this year and utilise them on a smaller Feeding the 1,000 project to raise awareness about food waste and the work of our great organisation. Watch this space!
I am also aware of some of the great projects undertaken by our clubs and want to hear more about these, so please let me know about your Hunger related projects so we can share these ideas far and wide.
Below you can see copies of the official video and our TV appearance following the Feeding the 5000 event. I also have provided a copy of our Gleaning Flyer.
Resources
One difficulty for this project was getting enough food on the day, even though we knew that food surplus is prolific. To address this a project entitled ‘The Lions Gleaning Hub – 105CE’ has been created.
This provides an opportunity for Lions and members of the public to volunteer for a few hours rescuing surplus fruit and/or veg and redistributing it across the country to where it is needed. In 2019, we rescued and redistributed 16,000 kg of pumpkins and squashes.
It is my hope that we can glean pumpkins again this year and utilise them on a smaller Feeding the 1,000 project to raise awareness about food waste and the work of our great organisation. Watch this space!
I am also aware of some of the great projects undertaken by our clubs and want to hear more about these, so please let me know about your Hunger related projects so we can share these ideas far and wide.
Below you can see copies of the official video and our TV appearance following the Feeding the 5000 event. I also have provided a copy of our Gleaning Flyer.
Resources
- Feeding the 5,000 video (downloadable)
- Feeding the 5,000 TV clip (downloadable)
- Gleaning flyer
Feeding the 5,000 video
Feeding the 5,000 TV Clip
Gleaning Flyer
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