Thanks to Everyone Who Attended Our Hunger Symposium.
Find materials from the event below!
Thursday, September 22, 2011
7:30a.m. – 1:30p.m.
The Hub at Cira Centre
2929 Arch St., Philadelphia, PA
- Mari Gallagher provided a keynote presentation delving into the impact of Food Deserts on communities and their residents.
- Joel Berg spoke about how we can work towards ending hunger.
- Two panels of our nation’s top authorities on food access, and the ever-increasing need, discussed the issues of poverty and hunger plaguing our country and how we can work together to help meet the need.
See video from Our Hunger Symposium, Here!
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Photos from our first Hunger Symposium. Click on the photo to the left to see more! Photos taken by Chorus Photography .
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Rachel Cooper, FRAC representative and Hunger Symposium panelist, provided this map of food hardship in the Delaware Valley. Philabundance’s service area is outlined in black.
Alfred Lubrano of the Philadelphia Inquirer provides his re-cap of the Hunger Symposium.
Drexel's Mariana Chilton (second from right) said poor nutrition causes lifelong developmental problems. Other panelists were (from left) Edward Zogby of Pa. welfare department; Lyn Kugel of PathwaysPA; Rachel Cooper of Food Research and Action Center; NBC10's Tracy Davidson. (CLEM MURRAY / Staff Photographer, Philadelphia Inquirer)
Hunger Experts, Meeting Phila., Stew Over ‘Food Deserts’
Saying “sugar is the new street drug,” a researcher who is an expert on the dearth of nutrition in low-income neighborhoods told an antihunger symposium in Philadelphia on Thursday that there are myriad health consequences for people living in so-called “food deserts…Read more.
