A campus-wide Food Drive is taking place throughout September on Barry University’s main campus in Miami Shores. The Food Drive is a community service project for the university’s Peace Month as well as Feeding America’s Hunger Action Month.
Faculty, staff, and students are asked to donate non-perishable food items, which will be delivered to the Feeding South Florida food bank in Broward County at the end of the month.
Donations may be placed in specially marked boxes at various locations on campus or delivered to the offices of the Center for Community Service Initiatives (CCSI) in Room 208 or 209 of Adrian Hall. Alternatively, donation pickup may be scheduled by calling 305-899-3696 or 3728.
In South Florida, nearly 800,000 people are “food insecure,” according to Feeding South Florida, the regional affiliate of Feeding America. That number includes more than 280,000 children.
The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations has emphasized that food security contributes to a peaceful world. And the International Commission on Peace and Food has declared, "Hunger anywhere threatens peace everywhere."
Part of a nationwide initiative of Feeding America, Hunger Action Month is aimed at raising awareness of the issue of hunger in the United States and at mobilizing the public to take appropriate action.
For further information, contact Liz James in the CCSI at 305-899-3728 or ljames@barry.edu.