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have been easy for Leket to declare food
distribution impossible, and the food
would have gone to waste. However,
Leket partnered with a Christian
church, which distributed food in part-
nership with them, still hot, to African
refugees seeking a better life in the
country. It's the kind of collaboration
food rescuers around the world need if
we are to overcome the hunger crisis.
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The dedication and volume of vol-
unteerism for Leket Israel also is
truly amazing. Volunteers — 45,000
strong — work in every facet of the
organization. Part of what makes
their volunteer efforts so robust is
their partnership with travel agencies
to benefit from the booming tour-
ist trade; people seek volunteer work
while visiting their homeland.
It's not just tourists who volunteer.
Many business people commit to
assisting in food rescue efforts before
they begin their workday. Some volun-
teers go directly to contributing farm-
ers, a network of about 400 growers,
and pick crops for Leket.
In answer to the country's lack of a
government-supported food program
for school children, Leket prepares
7,000 sandwiches each day so stu-
dents do not have to go hungry. It's
a program we have implemented at
Forgotten Harvest during the summer
when our own local children are most
at risk for inadequate nourishment.
Shared Experiences
Learning Leket's strengths, I shared
some of Forgotten Harvest's own
models for success. Of particular inter-
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est were our relationships with area
grocers. In 2004, Forgotten Harvest
pioneered rescuing food from grocery
chains with Kroger. The program now
spans the nation. Today, most major
grocers donate their surplus perish-
able food.
Leket was intrigued by the vari-
ety, volume and quality provided by
our grocers. Though Israel's grocery
industry is very different from ours,
mostly made up of smaller family-run
grocers, they are working to determine
how a similar program could succeed
there.
Since Leket Israel uses the same
delivery model as we do, our solid
relationships with emergency food
providers held great significance
for them. Working with 289 agen-
cies (Forgotten Harvest works with
more than 150), Leket Israel strives to
ensure food is handled appropriately
and delivered effectively and safely
with the proper equipment.
As food rescuers, this collaboration
of our strengths and innovations is
the critical link to getting good food to
those in need. As citizens, our willing-
ness to participate in the solution is
how we create healthy communities.
Hunger is a solvable problem — one
we will continue to fight until no one
will ever have to go hungry again. I I
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be wise to learn from the Jewish
community, U.S. Rep. Keith Ellison
(D-Minn.), the first Muslim mem-
ber of Congress, told the Plenum
delegates.
In a conversation on faith with
Rev. Dr. Katharine Henderson,
president of Auburn Seminary in
New York, Ellison said he looked to
his Jewish colleagues in Congress
as examples for being politi-
cal leaders despite representing
majority non-Jewish districts.
In June, the JCPA will be bring-
ing Jewish and African American
leaders here to Detroit where
we will reexamine how to work
together to address race and pov-
erty.
Our conversation on the com-
munal lessons we can draw from
Detroit as well as the deep wor-
ries faced here will continue in
May 2012 as we serve as host for
the next JCPA Plenum. It will be
a great moment to show off the
greatness of this city while trying
to bring the reality of Detroit's
concerns to the national news
media and also showcasing the
Jewish community's engagement
to the entire city. What better way
to close my tenure as chair than
with a strong turnout from the
entire Detroit Jewish community.
Our concerns . are too significant
and our nation too diverse to act
on our own. Repairing the world,
and Detroit, means first acting
together to create the relation-
ships that will carry our message
louder and further. II
Dr. Conrad Giles of Bloomfield Hills is
national chairman of the Washington-
based Jewish Council for Public Affairs.
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