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Skip Lunch to Fight Hunger

You know that utilitarian lunch counter where you buy your tasteless $10 turkey sandwich every day?  Why not forego that grim meal just one time and instead hand over the 10 bucks to City Harvest?  That lunch money will feed seven children in NYC for a week.

On May 6, 2009, the yearly city-wide initiative Skip Lunch Fight Hunger takes place. The event asks people to donate their lunch money to help City Harvest, and is even more important this year as New Yorkers get hit by the faltering economy. Many of the 600 community food programs that City Harvest serves are seeing a drastic increase in people seeking emergency food. Some programs have seen an increase of 20%, and City Harvest is working to keep up with the growing demand.

City Harvest board member Dana Cowin, editor in chief of Food & Wine magazine, conceived of Skip Lunch Fight Hunger in 2002.  Last year over 15,000 New Yorkers participated in the campaign, raising over $500,000 in a single day. With the need for emergency food on the rise, this year’s organizers hope to raise $600,00. 

City Harvest is the world’s first food rescue organization. This year alone City Harvest will collect 23 million pounds of excess food from different segments of the food industry, such as restaurants, grocers, corporate cafeterias, manufacturers, and farms. City Harvest then delivers this food free of charge to more than 600 community food programs. Each week the organization feeds over 260,000 hungry New Yorkers.

Check out www.skiplunch.org for more details.  And send some lunch money to a better cause then your lousy local deli!

—Susan Kane Walkush 

Event date: May 6, 2009, 1:00 pm

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