St. John’s Episcopal Church, Williamstown, will host Kim McMann, Coordinator of Target Hunger in the North Berkshires, as guest speaker on Sunday, July 25, at 9:00 a.m. in the parish’s upper room (reached by the ramp entrance). Her subject will be “Achieving Food Security.”
St. John’s summer series “Sundays at 9” features speakers whose life’s work has brought them to a moment of challenge. Kim McMann reports that in this present economy Americans are challenged to just keep up with hunger and food security, let alone reduce these strong but often hidden needs in our society. In her work of finding resources for people and connecting them to those resources, Kim McMann feels that challenge daily.
Her program, Target Hunger, is one of two pilot projects of The Food Bank of Western Massachusetts, which serves four hundred agencies in the four western counties of the Commonwealth. The North Berkshire project is the Food Bank’s rural location, while its urban counterpart is located in the Mason Square section of Springfield.
In the work of Target Hunger, it’s understood that addressing hunger means more than giving people food. People need to learn about their food options, and gain what they need to prepare and cook nourishing food.
One of Target Hunger’s goals is to increase low-income households’ access to fresh produce. Kim will talk about Square Roots Farm, a C.S.A. (community-supported agriculture) farm in Clarksburg, MA, which allocates a number of shares for low-income households.
The upper room of St. John’s is reached by the ramp entrance on Park Street.
Information: 413-458-8144.
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