Hunger Report 
	Cabinet Meeting, October 16, 2022
Hello My Fellow Lions in District D,
	
I’m afraid I’ve already dropped the ball; I apologize to our cabinet and particularly to DG Debbie for my inaction, so far as the role of hunger chair is concerned.  I have thought about what my role might be and I’ve determined that service to the hungry, like all our service projects, starts with clubs supporting hunger service projects.

We’ve missed some prime summertime food happenings, like gleaning fruits and vegetables during the summer months.  We must set our sights on those when the gardening season opens and actively work on that next spring and summer.  The possibilities are endless!

When I’m really stumped, I turn to the LCI website.  Please avail yourself of this wonderful information.  Log on, click on Start Your Service, scroll down to Hunger and click on that.  Voile!  Some great guidance appears for clubs interested in doing a service project involving hunger, the first of which is called Food Collection Initiative.  It’s a service project planner to support a local food organization.  It lines out this way:
	Duration-	7 days
	Determining tasks for the club project:
1.Select the organization to receive your food.  (In my community, that might be the food bank, school, or church.)
2.Determine the style of your food collections:
a.Drop off boxes
b.Host in-person collection sites
c.Combination of boxes and in-person
3.Promote your food collection project (this may take planning of 2-3 months.)

There’s a lot more info out there, including LCIF awarded grants for feeding people.  I will be researching that and hope to get more info out to the clubs.  Meantime, let no one go hungry…. We Serve!

Lion Dorothy Nilles, Hunger Chair for District D