This panel presentation about community food security explores models that move beyond emergency relief to link various partners in the food system to insure equity and access to good food for all. The welfare simulation experience and role play is designed to help participants begin to understand what it might be like to live in a low-income family, trying to survive from month to month. A debriefing period follows allowing participants to share their reactions and experiences. Past participants have found it to be a moving and powerful learning experience. Please reserve a space for the poverty simulation sessions in advance on registration form.
Seats are limited.
Art Simon founded Bread for the World in 1974. As a pastor of a Lutheran church on the lower east side of New York City, he was struck by the magnitude of hunger and poverty in his community and around the world. He decided to launch a citizens movement against it. Simon built Bread for the World into an effective movement of 44,000 members. Copies of the video and popcorn will be available in the workshop.