Launch of Community Food Hub located at Parkwood UMC
With seed money from RTI International’s Community Partnerships Program, the Parkwood Elementary School Food Pantry is expanding with a community food hub located right here at Parkwood UMC. Longtime RTI employee Lisa Greene presented the check to Reverend Anita Noble Taylor and Aja Purnell-Mitchell, PTA Co-VP and food pantry coordinator, at Parkwood’s Spring Carnival on April 27.
RTI was RTP’s very first tenant and Parkwood was RTP’s very first neighborhood. One way RTI lives its mission to improve the human condition is by giving back to the communities where we live and work. How fitting that RTP’s first tenant is giving back to RTP’s first neighborhood!
Christened the Parktown Food Hub at a kickoff on May 4, the community food pantry’s mission is simple: to feed as many people as possible with zero waste. It will be open to the community, a distribution location even when the school is closed and a source of volunteers to staff the school food pantry. Let’s work together to end hunger in Durham! Watch this space for more information about volunteer opportunities to support food security in South Durham.
