ATLANTA (July 13, 2022) | On Thursday, July 14, State Senator Nan Orrock (D – Atlanta), Atlanta City Councilmember Michael Bond and Elisabeth Omilami, Hosea Helps CEO, will join Instacart, the leading online grocery platform in North America, to host a White House Regional Listening Session at 3:00 p.m. at the Hosea Helps headquarters. This forum will feature insights from elected officials, private sector leaders, community stakeholders, and representatives from Hosea Helps, Second Helpings Atlanta, and Maximum Impact Love.
The goal of this Atlanta listening session is to better understand the underlying, systemic issues driving food access challenges and nutrition insecurity in the Atlanta community. Instacart will compile and share insights from local stakeholders in the Atlanta community with the Biden Administration ahead of this fall’s upcoming White House Conference on Hunger, Nutrition and Health.
The COVID-19 pandemic has driven historically high rates of food insecurity, or the inability to reliably afford or access sufficient quantities of healthy foods, nationwide and for thousands of low-income households in Georgia. In the City of Atlanta, prior to the pandemic, 1 in 7 children were identified as food insecure. In the wake of COVID-19, those rates have increased by around 20%.
WHO: State Senator Nan Orrock (D – Atlanta)
Atlanta City Councilman Michael Bond
Instacart
Hosea Helps
Second Helpings Atlanta
Maximum Impact Love
WHERE: Hosea Helps Headquarters
2545 Forrest Hills Dr SW
Atlanta, GA 30315
WHEN: Thursday, July 14, 2022
3:00 p.m.