Working Together to Relieve Hunger (Europe, Hong Kong, India, Israel, Singapore and South Africa) In this webinar we share ideas, stories, and best practices for working together with our food banking partners to relieve hunger. We discuss the purpose, resources and project ideas for the Lions Relieving the Hunger Campaign, and we will feature special guest presenters from the Global Foodbanking Network.

1. Working
Together to
Relieve
Hunger
November 14, 2013

2. Today’s Agenda
 Relieving the Hunger Overview
 Lions Global Impact
 Ways you can help!
 Campaign Resources
 Local Partnerships
 The Global FoodBanking Network
Overview
 Panel Session

3. The Faces of Hunger

4. Global Hunger
There are over 870 million people around the
world who are food insecure.
 The vast majority of food insecure people live
in developing countries.
 Poor nutrition causes nearly half (45%) of
deaths in children under five.

5. Our Global Network

6. Relieving the Hunger Campaign
The Relieving the Hunger Campaign
is a Global Service Action Campaign
that focuses on hunger and
malnutrition in communities around
the world.
• The campaign takes place during
the months of December and
January.
• Lions are asked to plan service
activities supporting hunger relief
organizations and local food
pantries.

7. Poll Question
Has your club
participated in a
Relieving the Hunger
project?
Yes
No

8. Your Global Impact
Service
Activities
FY 2012-13,
Lions reported
over 11,000
Activities under
the Relieving the
Hunger
Campaign.
Service Hours
People
Served
Lions served over
Reporting clubs
dedicated over
517,000
hours to hungerrelated activities.
2.1 million
people through
Relieving the
Hunger campaign
projects
worldwide.

9. Ways you can help!
During the months of December and January, we invite
you and your club to join Lions around the world to
help relieve hunger.
Prepare and deliver food baskets to families in need
Plant a community vegetable garden
Organize a food drive and collect canned goods
Host a food bank leader to speak to your club
Visit The Global FoodBanking Network website
(www.foodbanking.org) for volunteer opportunities

10. Poll Question
What kind of hunger projects has
your club done in your
community?
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Food Collection Drives
Holiday Food Baskets
School Feeding Program
Food Bank or Food Pantry Support
We have not yet participated in a
hunger service project

11. “Relieving the Hunger” Resources
Use the following resources to plan and promote your "Relieving the
Hunger" Global Service Action Campaign project.
• Call to Action Flyer: Get an overview of the "Relieving the Hunger"
Global Service Action Campaign – and ideas to jumpstart your
project.
• Planning Guide: Use this step-by-step guide to organize your very
own "Relieving the Hunger" project.
• Project Ideas: Review ideas you and your club can use to participate
in the campaign.
• Food Drive Project Sheet: Use this project sheet to organize a food
drive to alleviate hunger.
• News Release: Send a news release to local media to help publicize
your "Relieving the Hunger" project.

12. Jeffrey D. Klein
President and CEO
The Global FoodBanking Network

13. Supporting Food Banking
as part of
Relieving the Hunger Service Action Campaign
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14. Our Partnership
Make local communities better by helping the most vulnerable
• Our partnership helps Lions focus
energies and significantly impact local
communities
• Volunteer support is critical to food
banks – daily and long-term
• Working with food banks, Lions can
help supply communities and
individuals with their most critical
need – food
• Lions can find a food bank and
activities that fit time, talents,
treasures and community needs
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15. Who We Are
• Non-profit organization dedicated to fighting hunger and
reducing food waste
• Create, support, and strengthen food banks and food bank
networks around the world
• Chicago-based
• Work in 25+ countries, home
to more than 1/3 of the
world’s hungry people
• Expertise in international
food bank development and
administration
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16. What is Food Banking?
A link between surplus food and hunger
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17. The Food Banking Solution
GFN works to alleviate hunger AND reduce food waste
• GFN network food banks distributed 920 million pounds of food
through 19,000 service agencies last year
• Food banking helps hungry people and protects the environment
• Food in landfills immediately begins to produce dangerous
greenhouse gas that contributes to global warming
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18. Where We Work
Africa:
- Namibia
- Nigeria
- Sierra Leone
- South Africa
Europe:
- Bulgaria
- Russia
- United Kingdom
Oceania:
- Australia
Asia:
- Hong Kong
- India
- Singapore
- South Korea
- Taiwan
North America:
- Canada
- Mexico
South America:
- Argentina
- Brazil
- Chile
- Colombia
- Ecuador
- Paraguay
- Uruguay
Middle East:
- Israel
- Turkey
Central America:
- Costa Rica
- Guatemala
- Honduras
- El Salvador
- Nicaragua
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19. Ready to Get Involved?
www.foodbanking.org
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20. Africa
Egypt – The Egyptian Food Bank (EFB)
www.egyptianfoodbank.com
Moez El-Shohdi m.elshohdi@foodbankingregionalnetwork.com
Namibia – Project in Development
Schalk Walters - schalk@nlccf.org.na
Nigeria – Foodbank Nigeria
www.foodbankng.com
Olaoulu Sasore – osasore@foodbankng.com /
mail4laolu@yahoo.co.uk
South Africa – Food Bank South Africa (FBSA)
www.foodbank.org.za
Andy Du Plessis – andy@foodbank.org.za
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21. Food Bank South Africa (FBSA)
• Lions played an integral role in
establishing FBSA in 2009
• Lions Club, represented by Viv Grater, is
a FBSA Board Member
• FBSA urgently needs:
• more vehicles to support food
collections and agency inspections
• Volunteers to work at food banks
and support food drives
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22. Asia
Hong Kong – Feeding Hong Kong
www.feedinghk.org
Gabrielle Kirstein – gkirstein@feedinghk.org
India – India FoodBanking Network
www.indiafoodbanking.org
Vandana Singh - Vandana.singh@indiafoodbanking.org
Singapore – The Food Bank Singapore, Ltd
www.foodbank.sg
Nichol Ng – nichol@foodbank.sg
South Korea – Korean National Food Bank
www.foodbank1377.org
Grace Kim - eunhyesw@gmail.com,
Taiwan – Taiwan People’s Food Bank Association
www.foodbank-taiwan.org.tw
Lawrence Liu - liu.s88@msa.hinet.net
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23. Feeding Hong Kong (FHK)
• Volunteer program launched in
2009
• FHK incorporated in 2011 with
help of volunteers who
donated funds, and collected,
packed, and distributed foods
• Current needs:
• Warehousing and transportation
• Food donations
• Charity deliveries
• Warehouse and office support
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24. Food Bank Singapore
• Food bank founded by son and daughter of a long-time Lions
member. Mom passed down the spirit of giving back!
• Low awareness of food banking and food waste in Singapore.
• Need Lions to band together, start a movement with like-minded
organizations to spread the word, educate and source more food and
other resources
• Volunteers needed:
• Reduce and ReUse
Campaign
• Adopt a “Food Box”
• Spread the word
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25. India FoodBanking Network (IFBN)
• IFBN collaborates with member food
banks:
• Delhi FoodBank (DFB)
• Gurgaon FoodBank
• Ghaziabad FoodBank
• India has highest concentration of Lions
per capita and Lions have been
involved – including with the
development of DFB
• Lion member Mr. Neville Mehta is on
IFBN Governing Board – great example
of sharing time/talent to support food
banks
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26. Europe
Bulgaria – Bulgarian Food Bank
www.bgfoodbank.org
Tsanka Milanova - milanova@bgfoodbank.org
Russia – Foodbank Rus (FBRUS)
http://www.foodbankrus.ru/
Roman Zlatkin - info@foodbankrus.ru
United Kingdom – FareShare UK
www.fareshare.org.uk
Lindsay Boswell - enquiries@fareshare.org.uk
Relationship with:
European Federation of Food Banks (FEBA)
www.eurofoodbank.eu
Patrick Alix: feba@eurofoodbank.eu
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27. Europe
Food Bank Russia
• Recently became GFN certified
• Virtual food bank
• Needs: awareness, funds, food
FareShare UK
• Works closely with service
clubs like Lions
• Fare Share can direct Lions
to closest depot or depot
with needs suited to
volunteers
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28. Middle East
Israel – Leket Israel
Website: www.leket.org.il
Contact: Gidi Kroch – gidi@leket.org.il
Turkey – Gıda Bankacılığı Derneği
Website: http://www.gidabankaciligi.org/
Contact: Ugur Uralcan - ugur.uralcan@gidabankaciligi.org
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29. Leket Israel
• Food rescue/redistribution efforts rely on volunteers
• Will rescue more than 23 million pounds of produce in 2013
• Lions can:
• Glean produce, rescue food from restaurants and food courts,
redistribute food to feeding sites
• Share contacts with food industry leaders
• Support Leket research on waste in agriculture
• Provide funds to support food rescue activities
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30. Summary: Volunteer Opportunities
• Local
• Participate in food bank development
• Serve on Board of Directors
• Volunteer at food banks or service organizations
• Organize fundraisers
• Donate: products, funds, equipment, special skills, to expand
food bank capacity
• Create awareness of your local food bank
• Invite food bank leaders to speak to your group
• Global
• Spread the word, build the GFN community
• Use social media, take and share photos, write articles
• Like GFN on Facebook, follow on Twitter, visit
foodbanking.org, subscribe to our newsletter
• Donate funds to GFN to develop food banks in areas of need
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31. Getting Started
• Find a Food
Bank at
foodbanking.org
• Contact your
local food bank
• Get involved
• Short-term
• Long-term
IMPORTANT –
• Tell LCI and GFN about your efforts to support food banking.
• We will share your stories!
• You will inspire others!
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32. Thank You
Jeff Klein
President and CEO
The Global FoodBanking Network
jklein@foodbanking.org
www.foodbanking.org
@foodbanking
www.facebook.com/foodbanking
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33. Jeffrey D. Klein
President and CEO
The Global
FoodBanking
Network
Alan Gilbertson
Co-founder and
Director of the
FoodBank South
Africa

34. Thank you!
Please contact us at programs@lionsclubs.org and
visit our website for more resources.