By James Feichtner
The battle for hunger is a world wide epidemic facing communities all over the globe, including those in our own backyard. While many organizations exit to fight
Hoosier hunger and food insecurity, they are often separate entities with similar goals. For Rotary Club District 6560 and other Rotary Clubs across central Indiana, there is a call to unite in their cause and ideas to help energize the fight against Hoosier food insecurity and to minimize hunger on a local level.
Coming to the Indiana State Fairgrounds May 1 and 2, Rotary Club Dis. 6560 will present BetterTogether, a campaign to advocate unification and awareness among local community organizations and businesses that have similar goals to help the hunger epidemic in central Indiana.
“The overall goal of the BetterTogether initiative is to elevate the awareness about food and hunger in central Indiana, but also encourage others to join with the people who are already working within the area, including Rotary already joined with all kinds of organizations working within the area to alleviate hunger and food insecurity,” Rotary district strategic initiatives chairman Phil Anderson said.
Aside from raising awareness, the two-day event is striving to act as a collaborative approach in fostering ideas and ways that can help minimize hunger and food insecurity in our surrounding communities for years to come.
Day one will kick off the event with A Conference on Fighting Hunger.
“Friday (May 1) is going to be more of talking about how can we reach a point of hunger-free communities, and that’s really possible, it’s just a matter of all the hands coming together,” Rotary District Governor Thomas Branum said. “We hope that we can inspire people with ideas. We hope that we can encourage people that are already out there doing good work and network with others. You’ve heard the phrase that rising tides raises all boats. That if we work together we can serve the people we can find that we will be in much better shape than we have been.”
Both Rotarian community leaders from across Indiana, as well as non-Rotarian local and national civic leaders who share the objective of ending hunger are expected attend.
For more information on the event or to register, visit www.rotarybettertogether.org.
