WUD Alternative Breaks

Hey everybody! With Earth Day fast approaching, your favorite club AltBreaks isn’t forgetting about it! We are collabing with Mountaineering on a fun service day to Devil’s Lake. Sign up at the link in our linktree, we would love to see you there!

Last winter we sent a group of ten students to St. Louis to work with an organization named LifeWise to learn about food insecurity and how it can affect one’s life, an issue that has been gaining awareness exponentially in the past few weeks. Food insecurity can come in different forms but, in general it is the lack of consistent access to food. In this time of crisis as more and more people find themselves out of work or on reduced hours the number of people pushed into food insecurity has increased dramatically. This brief from Feeding American discusses the impact of the corona-virus on food insecurity. This is the perfect time to research your local food bank and see if they need help or donate to national organizations like Feeding America. With everyone staying home to flatten the curve many food banks are facing a lack of volunteers when they need it the most. Second Harvest in Wisconsin is currently looking for care box packaging volunteers where so they can deliver food to vulnerable populations that cannot leave their homes, all of their volunteers stay at least six feet from each other when packaging to stay safe.
https://hungerandhealth.feedingamerica.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/Brief_Covid-and-Food-Insecurity-3.30.pdf