On Aug. 23, 2018, our master's students and students from several other area colleges spent the day at Geisinger Commonwealth School of Medicine for the kick-off of our "Colleges Building Community" initiative. With help from Geisinger’s Springboard Healthy Scranton and local nonprofit Here for a Reason, students learned about how food insecurity impacts community and assembled 10,000 meals to be distributed to families with children at schools in the Scranton School District. On April 6, 2019, students took the next steps toward making our neighborhoods hunger-free zones with Colleges Building Community's "Healthy Food Fest," a fun, interactive event for Scranton School District families, highlighted in the video here.
Stay tuned for our next Colleges Building Community event on Thursday, Sept. 5 when a new group of students will learn more about the challenges of food insecurity and will package 25,000 meals to be distributed to families in the Scranton School District.
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