Fighting Hunger in NoVa

The Falls Church Rotary Club meets for dinner at Harvest Moon Restaurant & Lounge on the 1st and 3rd Thursday's each month at 6.30pm.

Note: there will be a club Board of Directors meeting after the regular dinner meeting on 9/21.

All welcome to join us for our 9/21 meeting when our program will be:

A presentation by Food for Others, which is based at Prosperity Avenue nearby. Food for Others is a nonprofit 501(c)(3) food bank and food rescue operation, working to help those in Northern Virginia who are food insecure. Even though NoVa is considered one of the wealthiest jurisdictions in the country, we still face a poverty rate of about 5%. This means, based on U.S. Census figures, that more than 90,000 people are living in poverty; 30% are children.

Food for Others is a part of Northern Virginia ’s safety net for food when an emergency strikes, and for the growing number of working poor who are unable to make ends meet and need to supplement their inadequate food supplies. Food insecurity means that individuals or families are so limited in their resources to buy food that they are running out of food, reducing the quality of their food, cutting out meat, feeding their children unbalanced meals, or skipping meals so that their children can eat.