World Food Day Canned Food Drive Gets Under Way
The Arkansas World Trade Center in conjunction with the University of Arkansas, the University of Arkansas Global Campus, the city of Fayetteville and Tyson Foods Inc. will sponsor a canned food drive in acknowledgement of World Food Day.
World Food Day is Thursday, Oct.16, and is a worldwide event designed to increase awareness and understanding and to inform a year-around action to alleviate hunger. This year is the 25th annual teleconference, and the topic is “Choices for a Warm and Hungry Planet.” The current United Nations Human Development Program Report states: “Climate change is the defining human development challenge of the 21st century. Failure to respond to that challenge will stall and then reverse international efforts to reduce poverty.”
People are encouraged to donate food items such as dry beans, canned goods, peanut butter and other non-perishable foods at one of the drop-off locations listed below on the University of Arkansas campus and other locations in Fayetteville and Rogers. All food collected will be donated to the Northwest Arkansas Food Bank.
Tyson Foods Inc. has agreed to match the food-drive donations on a 10-to-1 basis up to 60,000 pounds of food.
A news conference will be held on World Food Day at the Arkansas World Trade Center in Rogers to announce the total amount of food raised.
Drop off locations:
Arkansas World Trade Center
3300 Market St., Suite 400, Rogers;University of Arkansas Global Campus at Rogers
3300 Market St., Suite 420, RogersUniversity of Arkansas Global Campus at Fayetteville
2 E. Center St., FayettevilleUniversity of Arkansas Office of Study Abroad
722 W. Maple St., FayettevilleUniversity of Arkansas First Year Experience
Arkansas Union – A688, FayettevilleFayetteville City Administration Building
113 W. Mountain St.University of Arkansas Facilities Management
521 S. Razorback Road, C-105, Fayetteville
Additionally, all University of Arkansas residence halls will have collection boxes in their lobbies.
Contacts
Arkansas World Trade Center
479-418-4824, svanasche@arwtc.org
Ed Nicholson, director of community relations
Tyson Foods
479-290-4591, Ed.nicholson@tyson.com
Nick Brown, executive assistant for sustainability
University of Arkansas
479-575-3591, nrb004@uark.edu
Chris Erwin, business development
University of Arkansas Global Campus
479-575-6287, cerwin@uark.edu
City of Fayetteville
479-575-8272, jcoleman@ci.fayetteville.ar.us
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