Decreasing Food Insecurity in the Bay Area Through a Food Drive at a Bay Area High School

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Jonah W. Alfredo G. Thierry S.

Summary

The overarching goal of our project is to reduce food insecurity in the Bay Area by running a food drive at a public high school. According to Second Harvest Food Bank, 1 in 4 people in Silicon Valley suffer from food insecurity. Notably, in our public school district in Silicon Valley, we implemented food drives during elementary school. However, we observed a discontinuation of these measures by the time students reached high school. To bridge this gap, we are committed to ensuring the continued employment of food drives throughout high school. To ensure participation, we have also created a competition between homeroom classes that has funding from our school’s PTSA. The top three classes that donate the most food get donuts for their class. This competition will foster participation and allow us to better serve the community. The people we are serving are the food insecure in our community, who do not have steady access to sources of food or access to healthy food. We will measure the effectiveness of our food drive by measuring the amount of food we collect. Our group will use a series of Google forms for participants to collect the number of students who donated to evaluate the results of the project.