Harvest Festival for Hunger Awareness
The eighth annual "Harvest Festival for Hunger Awareness" will be held on a Sunday in November (date to be announced) from 11:30 a.m. till 2:00 p.m. at the Grand Generation Center, 304 E 3rd St, Grand Island, NE

The event was first held in 2001 at Fonner Park before Thanksgiving and has grown in awareness and participation since then. Everyone who has a concern for the hungry in our community and also globally is invited and encouraged to attend.

The annual event sponsored by Project Hunger of Grand Island, NE includes a noon meal, cake and pie sale, silent auction and entertainment. "Gifts of Sharing" are also encouraged at the event.

The last event held on November 19, 2007, saw 284 guests attending with a total of $12,626.00 raised through meal ticket sales, bakery and silent auction tables, and eighty "Table Sponsors" who gave $100.00 each to help the cause. Table sponsors were various businesses, churches, clubs, individuals, families and schools. Richard Jostis, development coordinator from Orphan Grain Train in Norfolk, NE was invited to tell the story of what his organization is doing here in the United States and many other countries throughout the world. A portion of the Harvest Festival's proceeds were designated for this cause. Orphan Grain Train's main thrust is to send semi-truck loads of clothing, blankets, shoes, medical supplies, food products, building materials and equipment to storm-ravaged coastal areas, struck by recent hurricanes, and communities located in North and Central America, devastated by tornados. Indian reservations and Ground Zero in New York City, attacked on September 11, 2001, have also been recipients of truck loads of donated relief supplies. Water-tight shipping containers are packed with about 1,200 apple boxes filled with good used clothing, shoes and medical supplies and placed into 8' X 8' X 50’stackable containers, shipped by rail to sea ports where they are loaded on to ocean-going freighters and delivered to countries where help is desperately needed and accepted. Orphan Grain Train has eighteen divisions here in Nebraska alone and several others in neighboring and surrounding states. Approximately two containers are loaded and shipped weekly out of Norfolk, NE on a year-around basis.

The November event also provided for most of the supplies to make up over two hundred, $25.00 value, Thanksgiving and Christmas dinners given away in the "Holiday Baskets" annual event. Non-perishable food items amounting to $4,221.00 were purchased and delivered to the shelves of the Grand Island Community Food Pantry along with $221.00 worth of fresh milk, eggs and ground hamburger in food vouchers for qualified Health and Human Services clients in Grand Island, NE waiting for food stamps to be available. Remaining funds will provide more of the same until November, 2008, comes around again.

Praise God from whom all blessings flow.

Address: 410 W. 2nd St., PO BOX 967, Grand Island, NE 68802
Phone: (308)385-1590 Fax: (308) 385-1590
E-mail: projecthunger@projecthunger.org

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