In short, we love our volunteers! April is Volunteer Appreciation Month, and we take appreciating our volunteers pretty seriously. 

The Community Health Education Department at Inter-Faith Food Shuttle is launching a new program called Diabetes Education for Seniors. The goal of this program is to help older adults manage their diabetes through access to diabetes education and an increase in healthy food needed to support the condition including whole grains, high fiber foods, and produce.

2023 is well underway, and Inter-Faith Food Shuttle challenges you to make this the year you make a difference by committing to a hunger free community. Become a Cultivator sustaining monthly donor to the Food Shuttle.

Word has gotten out: Inter-Faith Food Shuttle’s Community Health Education (CHE) program has tailor- made life skills curricula for the diverse populations that make up our community of neighbors. Our inclusive programming can be adapted to fit the special requirements of individual audiences, meeting community members at their point of need and ensuring that the lessons being taught resonate and have a true impact with those in attendance.

The Women’s Club of Raleigh, as part of their Community Service Program, is working with Mount Vernon Middle School, to assess what’s needed to help meet the goals of the school. One of those goals focuses on nutrition and keeping the students and their families healthy. As a means to reach that goal, the Women’s Club reached out to the Food Shuttle and invited the Community Health Education program to be a part of a Parent Engagement Night at Mount Vernon on October 19.

So, if you cut salt from your diet, how do you flavor your food? Inter-Faith Food Shuttle’s Community Health Education program is tackling that question head on by beginning to include a flavorful variety of spices and oils in monthly distributions of Grocery Bags for Seniors.

As kids head back to the classroom this August, Inter-Faith Food Shuttle is focusing on ensuring that all children have access to the nutritious food they need to grow and thrive. Chiesi USA has partnered with the Food Shuttle for a Back-to-School giving campaign, matching gifts to make an even greater impact of the lives of children like Elijah. From now through August 31,

The Food Shuttle’s Community Health Education team presented Cooking Matters , a six-week culinary and nutrition education program, for students at the Governor Morehead School. Each week, a team consisting of a volunteer chef and a nutritionist taught about healthy eating and walked students through simple yet delicious recipes.

On a quiet corner near downtown Durham, great things are happening. Fresh, nutritious food is being grown to share with neighbors in need. Community members come together to work the soil and tend what’s growing. Knowledge is provided to help others become skilled at growing their own gardens and cooking healthy on a budget. Strangers become friends and lives are changed for the better, all on the quarter-acre lot of Geer Street Learning Garden.

Thankfully, Inter-Faith Food Shuttle has supporters who have taken the cause of child hunger to heart and have made a commitment to change this sad reality. Tom Russell Charitable Foundation is one such supporter, having made a recent $100,000 gift to the Food Shuttle to address child hunger head on, through targeted programming and focused partnerships.

Along with blooming flowers and April showers, it is time once again to celebrate National Volunteer Appreciation Month! Inter-Faith Food Shuttle has so many reasons to celebrate. Across all our programs during the last year, Food Shuttle volunteers provided more than 1,800 hours of service

Through a variety of nutrition education classes and creative approaches to healthy eating, the small but mighty force of dietetic educators o Community Health Education are making a real difference in providing long-term health and hunger solutions for our neighbors across central North Carolina. ​