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Purdue Ag Week is helping local communities fight food insecurity
The Purdue Ag Week Task Force packed a record number of meals during this year’s Hammer Down Hunger event to help fight food insecurity across the state.
Marnie Schwartzkopf is the president of Purdue Ag Week.
“We work to serve meals locally, nationally, and internationally,” she says. “This year we had a record number of over 66,000. That total was 66,096 meals and some of those went to Food Finders here in Lafayette as well as some that were going to central Indiana.”
She tells Brownfield the organization partners with Pack Away Hunger for the event.
“They give us those connections and we kind of decide where that goes,” she says. “We try to stick to local organizations. With us being very prominent in the College of Agriculture and in the Purdue community, it means a lot to give back locally.”
Schwartzkopf says the group also partnered with Swipe Out Starvation this year to give students the opportunity to donate their unused meal swipes to those in need.
AUDIO: Marnie Schwartzkopf, Purdue University Senior in Agricultural Communication
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