April Shared Offering: Illini Fighting Hunger

Illini Fighting Hunger is a Registered Student Organization at the University of Illinois, a program of the Wesley United Methodist Church and Foundation, and a Kids Against Hunger satellite organization. The mission of IFH is to address local and international hunger issues by making meal-packaging events more frequent, more accessible, and more effective in Champaign-Urbana. IFH is run entirely by student volunteers. They match trained student leaders with community partners to organize food or meal-packaging events of all sizes. IFH provides the expertise and equipment for packaging, and the networks for purchasing raw food products and supplies and for distributing the final product. The organization putting on the event is then able to focus on fundraising for their event, recruiting volunteers, and educating participants about hunger issues in our community and abroad. Together the partners are able to work very effectively to achieve great things. One example of a successful IFH community project is the rice re-pack in our own church, which was so efficient that we finished it in half the expected time!