Since November of 1997, the Hunger Relief Fund for North Korea has employed a novel approach to fundraising and community service. Taking its name from the agricultural practice in North Korea and other places of growing two different crops per year on a single area of land, the Double Cropping project seeks to raise two 'crops' for the hungry through one effort.
Volunteers help feed the hungry in the local community by working at food banks and dining rooms.
Daniel Mok and other Double Cropping volunteers prepare holiday food packages for distribution to the Bay Area needy at the San Francisco Food Bank. Jiwon Kim and others from UC Berkeley's Committee for Korea Studies lend a hand on January 31. Double Cropping volunteers with San Francisco Food Bank staff and volunteers after a day of work. During this time, great contributions of time and energy have come from students of Korean language classes and other groups at UC Berkeley, exchange students and faculty from Korea, numerous church youth groups in the Bay Area, staff of the American Friends Service Committee and other non-profit organizations in the area, staff of a local Korean newspaper, and concerned individuals from as far away as Chico and San Diego. Over 50 volunteers, including many from the New Hope East Oakland Fellowship sort and pack over 10,000 pounds.