Did you know that Missouri is currently 5th in the nation for hunger insecurity?
Did you know that $1 donated to the Missouri Food Bank Association buys 7 meals?

Missouri CTSO Food Bank Service Project Steering Committee

Eight representatives of four Missouri Career and Technical Student Organizations met June 11 at the Department of Elementary and Secondary Education in Jefferson City to plan a CTSO community service project for 2012-2013. The project is titled “Show-Me Hunger: Unite the Fight” and is a partnership with the Missouri Food Bank Association. A statewide food drive is scheduled for February 2013, in conjunction with National Career and Technical Education Month. The goal is to raise 3 million pounds of food.

Front row (left to right): Kenneth Swope, FFA, Boonslick Technical Educ. Center, Boonville; Anna De Jong, resource development manager, Missouri Food Bank Association, Columbia; Katie Gibson, FFA, Nichols Career Center, Jefferson City. Back row (left to right): Alyssa Abraham, FBLA, Gainesville High School; Doug Hutcherson, FBLA, Clinton High School; Courtland Gerhart, DECA, California High School; Hannah Thieme, FCCLA, Chillicothe High School; and Taylor Washburn, FCCLA, North Harrison High School. Not pictured: Michael Watson, Collegiate DECA, Lincoln University. DESE photo