Community outreach provides a vehicle of change, it gives me the ability to make at least one person think about hunger in Massachusetts more or differently than they did yesterday. Being out in the communities and seeing the actual people who are the ones who will create, live and breathe change is why it is so important for me to be involved with community outreach. For a class this week I had to watch a documentary “A Place at The Table” it highlighted real life situations of food insecurity in the US. It was such a powerful and compelling experience that I wanted to tell all my family and friends to watch it in hopes that it would create this same change in our communities. There were numerous powerful statements made that were seemingly so obvious that it really made me wonder why food insecurity is such a widespread issue. Something that stood out to me was when it was explained that hunger is not a foreign disease that we do not know how to cure. We know what we have to do and now we as communities have to perpetuate the change. Doing community outreach to end hunger is a perfect way for me to be a part of change that I am truly passionate about. No one should ever have to worry about their next meal, no child or adult should have to not wake up and have a healthy breakfast. We are all deserving of the same, especially when it comes to the most basic human need of food and health.
-Allison
-Allison