hunger: Erasing Hunger One Can at a Time, Knoxville TN
- 11/27/11 02:01 AM
For the last 26 years, starting the day after Thanksgiving, local classic rock radio station WIMZ teams up with Second Harvest Food Bank of East Tennessee, for Camping for Cans. Radio personality Billy Kidd is camping, with a huge trailer, in front of Knoxville Wholesale Furniture on Kingston Pike, erasing hunger one can at a time.
Second Harvest serves 18 counties in east Tennessee, and shares some horrifying stats:
1 in 5 east Tennesseans will go hungry tonight; 40% of those are children; The working poor are the largest portion of people that seek assistance; There are more people (7 comments)