Be a community ‘Food Hero’

by Lauren Kraemer

Photo: Food Hero volunteers will receive training in modeling healthful eating and cooking, food safety, community food resources and more. [Josh Kohanek/Robert Wood Johnson Foundation]

Oregon State University Extension Service, along with community partners, will offer Food Hero volunteer training. Food Hero’s mission is to help low-income Oregonians improve their health through the increased consumption of fruits and vegetables.

  • World Hunger Education
    Service
    P.O. Box 29015
    Washington, D.C. 20017

  • About WHES & Hunger Notes
    For the past 40 years, since its founding in 1976, the mission of World Hunger Education Service is to undertake programs, including Hunger Notes, that
    • Educate the general public and target groups about the extent and causes of hunger and malnutrition in the United States and the world
    • Advance comprehension which integrates ethical, religious, social, economic, political, and scientific perspectives on the world food problem
    • Facilitate communication and networking among those who are working for solutions
    • Promote individual and collective commitments to sustainable hunger solutions.