Hunger Summit to focus on Garland County
HOT SPRINGS – The first Garland County Hunger Action Summit, to be held on Tuesday, February 26, at the First United Methodist Church, 1100 Central Avenue, from 8 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. , will bring community leaders together to address the growing problem of hunger in the county.
Sponsored by the Arkansas Foodbank, Entergy-Arkansas, Inc., and Weyerhaeuser, Inc., the summit will feature the nationally-recognized Poverty Simulation Workshop based on the life experiences of real people living in poverty. Community leaders are being invited to participate.
During an hour-long exercise that simulates how it feels to struggle for survival, participants will experience the kind of tough choices faced by those living in poverty--between feeding their families, paying for medicine or paying the light bill.