MUNCIE--Thursday (27/6) eight students from Indonesia and Malaysia visited Second Harvest Food Bank of East Central Indiana. They were participants of Study of US Institute for New Media and Journalism, a program sponsored by The Department of State. This visit was one of their community service activities during their program here in the US.The students amazed by the system of the foundation which established since 1983 because the foods stored in the warehouse were in very good condition and nothing wrong with them. The foods came mostly from department stores and food industries which have overwhelming storage or foods that no longer can be sold because of several reasons. They sent the foods to the warehouse to be redelivered to people who need them.
"They even still good and excellent," as Zacky, one of students from Indonesia said.This institute has served 20 thousand pounds of food last year. this was done as an implication of the fact that in 2011, 46.2 million people were in poverty in America (feedingamerica.org) and 16 million of them are kids (www.nokidhungry.org). Second Harvest Food Bank provides food for unfortunate people who do not have food in Indiana, and sometimes another state as well. 80% of them were delivered to the agencies and the rest were taken by agencies to the warehouse by themselves.
There are several programs doing by Second Harvest Food Bank, such as Tailgate Program, The Commodity Supplemental Food Program, Emergency Shelter, Child Hunger Program, Emergency Soup Kitchen, and Emergency Food Pantries. For this 30 years Second Harvest Food Bank has struggled to keep provide foods for entire Indiana especially for Muncie.
