Springfield Gardens , New York, March , 19, 2021 – Linda Derry, a sixteen year old from Springfield Gardens, NY has been awarded a Sodexo Stop Hunger Foundation Youth Grant through Youth Service America (YSA). The grant will support Derry in leading a community service project that addresses the issue of childhood hunger.
1 in 6 people (more than 50 million people), including 1 in 4 children (approximately 17 million children) in the United States are experiencing food insecurity in 2021. This is a problem that can be solved, and young people are a part of the solution. Youth-led activities will take place on Global Youth Service Day, April 23-25, 2021. Linda Derry will address the issue of food insecurity by hosting a “Seed Giveaway” event at The Garden Of Resilience in her neighborhood. The event will take place on April 17, 2021 from 10:30 AM- 1:00 PM
Derry is one of 106 young leaders across the country awarded grants to organize projects to help end childhood hunger. Grantees will educate and mobilize their peers around the issue to help end childhood hunger through awareness, service, advocacy, and philanthropic activities. They join millions of other young people around the world as part of Global Youth Service Day, April 23-25, 2021. Celebrating 33 years of youth changing the world, Global Youth Service Day (GYSD) is the largest youth service and civic action event in the world.
“We strive to encourage youth-led initiatives providing innovative solutions to help fight childhood hunger because this is an issue no one person, team, or organization can solve alone,” explained Gerri Mason Hall, Sodexo Stop Hunger Foundation Chair and Chief Diversity and Sustainability Officer for the Americas. “I am humbled by the quality and volume of applications we receive each year,” said Roxanne Moore, Executive Director, Sodexo Stop Hunger Foundation. “Helping and supporting these youth grantees – ordinary people that make themselves extraordinary – brings the Stop Hunger Foundation closer to its objective of working toward zero hunger in the U.S. By investing in their efforts on GYSD, we hope to ignite the passion in other young people to join the fight against child hunger.”
Derry’s “Seed Giveaway” event will also include the following local organization hosting community activities: Black Village Arts & Mom’s Who Care.
