HUNGER PREVENTION MISSION
Hunger Prevention Team
of Marathon County is a community coalition that promotes hunger
awareness, coordinates services designed to prevent hunger, empowers
people, and builds systems to take control over hunger issues.
INITIAL PROJECTS
The Hunger Team of
Marathon County had three initial goals when it formed:
- Conduct a comprehensive survey
that could serve as a gauge as to the extent of hunger in Marathon
County.
- In collaboration with United Way's First Call, develop a Food
Resource Guide
that would list all food/nutrition services offered in
the county.
- Increase the public's awareness of the existence of hunger
and poverty in Marathon County by conducting a $14.00 Food Shopping
Challenge.
Newspaper article courtesy Wausau Daily Herald. (2 pages,
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ONGOING PROJECTS
- Maintain the community garden
that will serve a dual purpose:
- Provide Marathon County residents a place to grow fresh
vegetables for their own families.
- Provide steady supply of fresh produce to area food pantries
through gardener contributions and a food pantry garden
that is worked by community volunteers.
- Stabilize the supply of food donated to the pantries by looking
at the timing of area food drives and the donation practices
of area businesses to determine if a plan could be developed
that would ensure a steady influx of food to all the pantries
throughout the entire year.
- Provide commodity food distribution at Neighbors Place.
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