*** MEDIA ADVISORY ***
DATE: Friday, Nov. 19
WHAT: Thanksgiving Meals Drive by the UMass Amherst School of Public Health and Health Sciences
and the UMass Nutrition Association, a pupil group, will culminate with the loading up of meals
and supply to the Amherst Survival Center
WHEN: 12:30 p.m. packing up and 1 p.m. supply
WHERE: Lot 43, behind Arnold Home within the northeast quadrant of the UMass Amherst campus,
is the positioning of the loading.
The meals will then be delivered to the Amherst Survival Heart,
138 Sunderland Street, North Amherst, about 1 p.m.
CONTACT: Amanda Zwirn, azwirn@umass.edu, 646-354-9035
Patty Shillington, pshillington@umass.edu, 305-606-9909
The UMass Amherst Faculty of Public Well being and Well being Sciences and the UMass Vitamin Affiliation (UMNA) will ship Thanksgiving Meals Drive donations Friday to the Amherst Survival Heart within the pupil group’s largest annual meals drive so far.
The Amherst Survival Heart has been serving 1000’s of Hampshire and Franklin County residents in want since 1976, providing a spread of free packages and providers, together with a meals pantry.
UMass organizers say they’re particularly glad to convey reduction to these struggling in the neighborhood in gentle of the continuing challenges of the COVID-19 pandemic, which has disrupted provide chains and the financial system. They hope to make clear the issue of meals insecurity, particularly amongst college students.
“Many college students face meals insecurity each day,” says Lindsey Flick, president of the UMNA and a senior diet main. “It’s not one thing that’s talked about usually. Though we’re again to in-person courses and the group is again, many individuals are nonetheless struggling, together with many college students. This meals drive is supposed to assist the scholars and the Amherst group. We’re donating not solely to the Amherst Survival Heart but additionally to the UMass meals pantry. Each pantries cater to the scholars at UMass.”
Flick says so many individuals have donated this yr that they’ve gathered an unprecedented quantity of meals for the annual occasion. “This drive has introduced out the generosity in my friends,” she says, “and I’m very proud to see so many step as much as assist push again at meals insecurity in our group.”