Where do we go from Here?

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This is a question that I know many of us in the 2017 Capstone are asking ourselves right now. It is also a question that society as a whole can be asking, through reading on our class' experience.

Through this quarter, we have come to know the subject of Food Security in vulnerable populations intimately. We have researched the subject, and posted our findings together as a group on this blog. 

We have also been hard at work maintaining our website, which will soon feature videos that we, and future classes in this Capstone have generated 100% on our own, under the guidance of our faculty and  staff of the Meals on Wheels People staff here in  Portland, Oregon. 

Our class will go our separate ways at the end of the quarter. A new class will come in and take over. We will graduate, and we will move onto our various careers; but the issue of Food insecurity will still be here, and will still be very real. 

Our hope is that we have been able to provide some insight to this issue and maybe even inspired you to take action.  Perhaps you have become interested in the subject, or volunteering at Meals on Wheels, but don't live in the Portland area. Meals on Wheels America is the national hub for the Meals on Wheels program, and can point you in the right direction of the over 5,000 Meals on Wheels programs that are available nationwide, and need the help of people in their community.

In a 2012 article for the American Society on Aging, Enid Borden, former CEO of Meals on Wheels America, and current CEO for the National Foundation to End Senior Hunger (Formerly known as the Meals on Wheels Research Foundation), proposed the goal of ending senior hunger by the year 2020. That is just over two years away, and there is still a lot of work to be done. But through activism and volunteer efforts, including those of college campuses, and programs like Meals on Wheels, it is not an impossible endeavor. Just one that needs a lot of help, from a lot of good people. 

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