What We've Learned So Far

Our goals for this trip are varied. Learning about hunger is at the top of our priorities for this particular road trip. Thankfully, only a day and a half in to the trip we’ve already learned quite a bit. We’ve asked everyone the question, “What have you learned so far?” Here are their responses:

• A lot of people have to choose to be hungry. Forced to choose between being hungry, or having a place to live, or having a car to drive to work, people are making a choice to be hungry. –Emily S.
• Food is more important that I ever thought. I take for granted that I can go into my kitchen and get an apple or something healthy whenever I want. –Allison D.
• It is possible for 52 different organizations and 4,000 volunteers to work together for a common purpose (at Luke House). –Josh H.
• 30,000 pounds of food would have gone to waste, but The Campus Kitchens Project used it to feed people (at Northwestern University last year alone). –Elizabeth L.
• As I watched the seagull getting fish on Lake Michigan, I was thinking about the Scripture that says, “Look at the birds. They don’t plant or harvest or store food in barns, for your heavenly Father feeds them. And aren’t you far more valuable to him than they are?” (Matthew 6:26) We’ve been seeing people coming together to feed each other. –Amy C.
• There is a lot of need in the world, but there is also a lot of love and people trying to help those in need. –Ann Marie R.
• It might look like people aren’t getting help, but that might not be the case. They may be getting help from lots of places. –Ellen H.
• The whole process, economics and policy of food and how it interacts with hunger is much more complicated than I thought. –Paula C.
• People can make a difference, and we’re meeting a lot of people who are. –John L.