September is Hunger Action Month, a nationwide campaign highlighting the urgent need to end hunger. WMRA’s Calvin Pynn spoke with Les Sinclair, Communications Manager for the Blue Ridge Area Food Bank about food needs in our region and the efforts underway to address those needs.
LES SINCLAIR: Hunger Action Month is a month-long effort to raise awareness about hunger in our communities. Hunger exists in every zip code in the United States, and that means every zip code here in the Blue Ridge. And this effort, which is put on by our partner organization Feeding America and all of the hunger-related organizations across the country during the month of September, is really all about making sure that hunger is on the radar of not just the politicians and the elected officials, but everyday folks because it’s more prevalent, I think, than people know.
CALVIN PYNN: What factors will be driving food insecurity in this year, but also just in our region?…