You are uniquely positioned to engage a broad group of people in your community to work together to address the problems of hunger in your area.  Your efforts also help raise awareness and understanding of the issues related to food security at a more global level.  Here are some things you can do:

• Build a coalition of local hunger groups, soup kitchens, and civic groups to organize World Food Day educational and community-wide events.
• Establish an essay contest, sponsored by a local newspaper, for children to write on the issue of hunger (people helping people, kids helping kids, etc.)
• Organize a community-wide food drive.
• Find vacant warehouse space and dedicate its use by and for hunger relief organizations.
• Invite city officials to assist in serving meals in a soup kitchen one weekend.
• Initiate a recycled newspaper or can drive in your city and donate the proceeds to a local food bank or homeless shelter.
• Create a children’s display of drawings on the end of hunger (visualize a world without hunger) to be placed in city hall.
• Hold WFD at a major sports event, with a percentage of the proceeds going toward ending hunger organizations.
• Invite restaurants to donate 10% of their gross receipts on WFD to local food banks or international relief/development agencies.
• Sponsor an educational symposium or host the WFD USA teleconference at a local college or university.
• Start a “community garden” campaign, with families growing vegetables and fruits on their property and donating their surplus produce to local food banks.
• Contact your governor’s office to urge support for World Food Day programs in your state.
• Encourage local school authorities to support special school activities or studies focusing on food and hunger themes.