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Community Calendar
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Hope for the Hungry
Feeding Greater Des Moines
November 10, 2012
9:00 a.m. - 3:00 p.m.
St. John's Lutheran Church
600 6th Avenue
Des Moines, Iowa 50309
The goal of Hope for the Hungry is to alleviate childhood hunger in the Greater Des Moines area by 2015. This symposium will seek creative solutions toward accomplishing this goal. Here is the day's outline:
- Yogesh Shah, M.D., Associate Dean, Global Health, Des Moines University, will deliver the keynote address: What Does Hunger Look Like?
- We'll watch the video, Hunger Hits Home, followed by a panel discussion.
- Local experts will share their experience in three break-out groups
- Break-out groups will plan their projects for 2013, toward alleviating childhood hunger by 2015
- Prizes from Iowa Food Cooperative and Tall Grass Grocery Co-op. A rain barrel, including installation, from Rain Barrels Iowa will be the grand prize!
- The Bridge, an ecumenical group of downtown churches, will provide lunch. A free-will offering for lunch will support the Bridge's downtown Connection Cafe, which serves free lunch five days a week to people in need.
We hope you will support the co-sponsors of this event, DMARC's MovetheFood and the Coalition in Support of Hungry Children. Your contributions will enable us to hold a successful event that will help hungry children in the greater Des Moines area move from hunger to food security. Thank you for your support.
Visit www.dmreligious.org to download the Supporters letter and commitment/donation form. To learn more, contact Director Diana Sickles at: dsickles@mindspring.com or 515-255-5055. Watch for conference registration materials to be avilable soon! |
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Who are we?
The Des Moines Area Religious Council is an interfaith organization with a core membership of about 140 congregations from four faith traditions. Recipient of the 2010 Aurora Award from The Des Moines Register, DMARC provides a common means of responding to basic human needs and a context for interfaith dialogue.
The DMARC Food Pantry Networkconsists of 12 separate pantry sites, a centralized warehouse, and numerous community partners. It is the largest food pantry network in Iowa. Pantry sites are located in West Des Moines, Ankeny, Johnston, Urbandale, and eight sites in Des Moines. In 2011, DMARC programs and services assisted over 33,000 individuals, nearly half of whom were children and youth.
MovetheFood is a DMARC-led initiative to address the entire food system in Greater Des Moines, building on more than 35 years of the Food Pantry Network, catalyzing fresh generations, and engaging new constituencies to further support a vision for a day when everyone in Polk County has enough to eat. |
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