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PROCLAMATION
WHEREAS, September is Hunger Action Month nationwide, with September 14 designated as
Hunger Action Day; and,
WHEREAS, Hunger Action Month is a hunger awareness campaign started by the Feeding
America network of food banks, which includes the Harry Chapin Food Bank of
Southwest Florida; and,
WHEREAS, Collier County is one of five Southwest Florida counties the Harry Chapin Food Bank
serves; and,
WHEREAS, Collier County has approximately 40,000 people who are food insecure, which means
a person may not know where his or her next meal is coming from, according to
Feeding America's 2016 Map the Meal Gap study; and,
WHEREAS, approximately 14,600 of those 40,000 people are children; and,
WHEREAS, the Harry Chapin Food Bank has increased food distribution 93 percent in Collier
County since 2013, with 4.8 million pounds distributed last fiscal year; and,
WHEREAS, the Harry Chapin Food Bank provides food to more than 30 nonprofit agencies in
Collier County through Fulfill, its mobile pantry program; and,
WHEREAS, the Harry Chapin Food Bank is expanding its Collier County operations to a new
13,500 square-foot warehouse in Naples, which will help the food bank provide more
food, volunteer opportunities and space to collaborate with the community; and,
WHEREAS, the Harry Chapin Food Bank encourages Collier County citizens to continue to
volunteer, advocate and donate to help end hunger in Collier County; and,
NOW THEREFORE, be it proclaimed by the Board of County Commissioners of Collier County,
Florida, that September 14, 2017, be designated as
HUNGER ACTION DAY IN COLLIER COUNTY
DONE AND ORDERED THIS 26th Day of September, 2017.
0 ,11 4Ill�>> BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS
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PENNY TAY 4R, CH•f'MAN
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