April Food Day
japra | Mar 31, 2009 | Comments 9
Easy & Elegant Life, along with fundraising professional and editor of Pigtown*Design, have teamed up to create a blogger action day on April 1, 2009, which we are calling April Food Day – Bloggers Fighting Hunger. We are asking our fellow bloggers to create a post about this project and ask each of their readers to make a contribution to Feeding America (formerly Second Harvest), a national food bank with 200 member banks across the country.Everyday, the news is filled with the dire news about the current economic climate and a lot of us use the blogging community to take a break from the constant drumbeat. However, we can not ignore the fact that friends and family members, and even some blogger friends have lost their jobs because of the recession.
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People who never had a worry in the world now have to think about where their next meal is coming from. People who never would have dreamt that they would need help are now showing up at the local food banks. But when they get there, the shelves are bare. There is not enough food being donated to meet the sudden rise in demand. There is not enough money to buy the food for the food banks. There is not a general understanding that food banks need help to help fill their shelves.
Every dollar contributed provides seven meals or 10 pounds of food. A gift of $25 provides 75 meals. If we all post together and ask our readers to make a contribution on April 1, we can make a huge difference in our communities.
We would like you to help in a few easy ways:
- Send this or a similar letter to your friends with blogs and ask them to do the same.
- Write a post, and we can help you with copy if you need it, and publish it on March 31 or April 1, asking your readers to make a contribution to Feeding America. We will provide you with the direct link to Feeding America’s donation page.
- Provide a link to this blog, April Food Day and we will link back to your blog and to your post about the April Food Day.
We hope that you will help us help others. We know that this is a quick turn-around, but the need is great and the time is now.
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About the Author: JaPRA is an expat Texan living in England with her husband (Mr. DJ), their 17-year old daughter (Roxi), and their dog Trudy.
What an excellent idea.
I will try to get organized to do something with this tomorrow.
I have just woken up….
Thank you for your recent comments- all of them most interesting.
I’m sure you don’t have a black thumb!
There’s a church in the next town to us which has supplies of food for people who are hungry. We tend to think in the UK that no-one goes hungry because we have a good welfare state. But things do go wrong and people do miss meals – a serious matter when there are children in the household. I work for a charity and have seen some sad cases of mothers without food for their children or clean nappies for their babies.
The Salvation Army and a few other organisations (like the local church mentioned) provide invaluable help. It makes more difference than most of us would imagine.
Elizabeth–Thank you, dear! That would be wonderful if you could. And regarding your NYC pics, what a beautiful time of year! We’ve been having weeks of lovely sun, but today has been grey, grey, grey.
Dorothy–Thank you so much for your UK view. I am glad you mentioned the Salvation Army too. If I don’t hear back from Roxi’s school by tomorrow, I will be sure to send our donation that way. I’ve done a lot of volunteer work in the US and know that every little bit does make a difference. Thanks again for your comment!
First the Huffington Post, and now JAPRA!!!
Thanks so much for posting this. I am happy to share all my pictures and posts with you!
xoxo
thanks for raising awareness of food hunger. I had just called the local food bank and left a message about volunteering.
PD–Thanks to you and E&EL for thinking of this. I love that we'll all be writing about this today and tomorrow.
Christine–WOW! You are awesome, friend. Thank you from the heart.
Well done for drawing attention to this JAPRA. :)
I was planning a silly post for our library blog tomorrow and will continue with that, but add this serious coda. And I can put something on my personal blog as well. I have been running short of ideas lately, so thanks for the inspiration!
Akelamalu–The beauty of blogging and blogging friendships is we all inspire one another. In this case it was Pigtown Design who inspired me (and the cupcakes–hee hee). It’s nice to use our blogs to spread happiness, isn’t it? Some days you just need a happy jolt. That is why I like to visit your blog :-)
Kathy–Are you going to blog about the P+P Zombies on your library blog? Haha! Thanks for spreading the word about April Food Day. I know we are all thinking about stuff like this, especially now. But sometimes it’s nice to have a gentle reminder to do something about it :-)