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During COVID-19 Shutdown, Ithaca City School District Provides Students Meals At Home
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The Ithaca City School District is working to prepare and deliver thousands of meals daily to students in need.
The Cornell Daily Sun (https://cornellsun.com/tag/food-bank/)
The Ithaca City School District is working to prepare and deliver thousands of meals daily to students in need.
Satori Salon and Malcolm Thomas worked together to organize Food for the Soul, a fundraiser for the Food Bank of Southern Tier, to help fight food insecurity in Tompkins County.
Miguel Gómez, associate professor in the Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management, has assisted in the development of a new harvesting model to help food banks improve the nutritional value of the food they distribute to the hungry. Gómez and Dyson grad Xiaoli Fan collaborated with researchers from Boston College to address challenges faced by food banks, according to Gómez. “You have food wasted on one hand and malnutrition on the other,” Gómez said in a University press release. “The food banks can make this link, but there’s a logistical problem here. Our program contributes to a solution.”
The team has been working on improving the gleaning process for fruits and vegetables, according to Fan.