For most of you the semester or term has wound down or about at the end. What lies ahead is a winter or holiday break. No doubt all of you are on the faculty of programs that have a foodservice or culinary component, which means you may have an abundance of inventory sitting in dry, frozen, or cold storage. At the same time, there are food banks and homeless shelters in your community that are finding it more and more difficult to provide food for the growing ranks of the hungry due to the recession.
I know that funds are limited to the point that many have been asked to cut next year's budget but this is the season of giving and I would ask that you look at your inventory and find foods that you can donate to the local food bank or homeless shelther. Perhaps you and your students could even take a hot meal that you have prepared together and serve it at the local shelter, teaching your students the value of civic engagement.
All I can say is that the messages from the little match girl, George Bailey, Ebeneezer Scrooge, and countless others were not lost on me and hope that they were not lost on you either so am asking this day that you and I do what can be done to give the gift of food to those who might otherwise go hungry this Christmas.
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