Saturday, January 16, 2016

No One Should Go to Bed Hungry....

No one should go to bed hungry....

The question to ask your club is, "are there people in our community who are going to bed hungry?"  If so, what can you do about it?

Feeding the hungry, ensuring children have enough to eat, isn't something we do one time a year. The needy aren't just hungry at Thanksgiving or Christmas.  Children shouldn't leave school on Friday and spend the weekend hungry because there's no food in the house.

Most clubs are active in "feeding the needy" but can we do more?  Here's some ideas in case you want to pursue other projects:
  1. Volunteer to deliver prepared meals to elderly citizens.
  2. Organize a feeding program at a local school to provide healthy, nutritious meals.
  3. Serve meals at a soup kitchen or homeless shelter.
  4. "Adopt" a family that is struggling to put food on their table.  Take them shopping for fruit and vegetables.
  5. Organize an event to benefit the food bank in your community; use cans of food as admission.
  6. Hold a hunger walk and use proceeds to buy food for a children's shelter.
  7. Create snack packages to be distributed to children in need.
  8. Pick up donations of fresh food items for a women's or children's shelter.
  9. Accompany and assist a person who is blind with food shopping.
  10. Collect infant formula and baby food for an organization serving young mothers at risk.
  11. Invite a local food bank representative to speak at a club meeting.
For more great ideas, click HERE

When you're done, remember to enter your service activity into MyLCI and select the appropriate category under Activity Type.  This way LCI will know what we're doing and how many people we are serving.  #Lions100
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