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NRA Service Helps Target Hunger Across America
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NRA Service Helps Target Hunger Across America
Deer season is here, and with it comes an excellent opportunity for America's sportsmen and women to share their good fortune in the field with those less privileged. Hunters for the Hungry is a national charitable program through which hunters may donate their extra game meat to help feed the hungry.
Game-sharing programs may be known by different names, but whatever they are called in your area -- Hunters Who Care, Sportsmen Against Hunger, Hunters Sharing the Harvest, Deer for the Hungry, Buckmasters Project Venison -- they serve the same purpose: helping to ensure that as few Americans as possible go without food. According to the Washington D.C.-based Food Research and Action Center, an estimated five million children and 17 million adults in America go hungry each month.
As America's largest and oldest sportsmen's organization, the NRA plays a key role in promoting the efforts of harvest-sharing programs like Hunters for the Hungry. The NRA supports these state-level efforts through its Hunters for the Hungry Information Clearinghouse. As a part of the Association's Hunter Services Department, the Clearinghouse puts interested individuals in touch with programs in their area and fosters public awareness through education, fundraising and publicity. Contact information for many game-sharing programs is listed on NRA's web site at www.nrahq.org/hunting/hungry_nat_list.asp.
"Whatever we can do to help eliminate even one single person going hungry is a victory," said Bob Davis, manager of NRA's Hunter Services Department. "Our goal is to see that as many hunters as possible take advantage of this program. It's one of the best ways that you as a hunter can give back to your community," added Davis.
Sportsmen can not only donate game meat in their local area, but make financial contributions as well. Donations given to a game-sharing program are used to offset the costs of processing and delivery of game meat in the sportsman's area. To find out how to contribute money in your area, log on to the web address listed above.
Other organizations also pool their resources to help stamp out hunger. The Safari Club International's Sportsmen Against Hunger program, for example, annually shares nature's bounty and delivers more than 250 million meals, according to Jim Brown, director of public relations for Safari Club International.
For more information on Hunters for the Hungry, how you can help spread the word, how to find a game-sharing program in your community, or if interested in starting a program in your area, call NRA's Hunter Services Information Clearinghouse at 800-492-HUNT or log on to www.nrahq.org/hunting/hunterhungry.asp.
Photo by Betty Lou Fegely
"If cowardly and dishonorable men sometimes shoot unarmed men with army pistols or guns, the evil must be prevented by the penitentiary and gallows, and not by a general deprivation of a constitutional privilege." - Arkansas Supreme Court, 1878
Deer season is here, and with it comes an excellent opportunity for America's sportsmen and women to share their good fortune in the field with those less privileged. Hunters for the Hungry is a national charitable program through which hunters may donate their extra game meat to help feed the hungry.
Game-sharing programs may be known by different names, but whatever they are called in your area -- Hunters Who Care, Sportsmen Against Hunger, Hunters Sharing the Harvest, Deer for the Hungry, Buckmasters Project Venison -- they serve the same purpose: helping to ensure that as few Americans as possible go without food. According to the Washington D.C.-based Food Research and Action Center, an estimated five million children and 17 million adults in America go hungry each month.
As America's largest and oldest sportsmen's organization, the NRA plays a key role in promoting the efforts of harvest-sharing programs like Hunters for the Hungry. The NRA supports these state-level efforts through its Hunters for the Hungry Information Clearinghouse. As a part of the Association's Hunter Services Department, the Clearinghouse puts interested individuals in touch with programs in their area and fosters public awareness through education, fundraising and publicity. Contact information for many game-sharing programs is listed on NRA's web site at www.nrahq.org/hunting/hungry_nat_list.asp.
"Whatever we can do to help eliminate even one single person going hungry is a victory," said Bob Davis, manager of NRA's Hunter Services Department. "Our goal is to see that as many hunters as possible take advantage of this program. It's one of the best ways that you as a hunter can give back to your community," added Davis.
Sportsmen can not only donate game meat in their local area, but make financial contributions as well. Donations given to a game-sharing program are used to offset the costs of processing and delivery of game meat in the sportsman's area. To find out how to contribute money in your area, log on to the web address listed above.
Other organizations also pool their resources to help stamp out hunger. The Safari Club International's Sportsmen Against Hunger program, for example, annually shares nature's bounty and delivers more than 250 million meals, according to Jim Brown, director of public relations for Safari Club International.
For more information on Hunters for the Hungry, how you can help spread the word, how to find a game-sharing program in your community, or if interested in starting a program in your area, call NRA's Hunter Services Information Clearinghouse at 800-492-HUNT or log on to www.nrahq.org/hunting/hunterhungry.asp.
Photo by Betty Lou Fegely
"If cowardly and dishonorable men sometimes shoot unarmed men with army pistols or guns, the evil must be prevented by the penitentiary and gallows, and not by a general deprivation of a constitutional privilege." - Arkansas Supreme Court, 1878
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