User:Blackberry038/"I Eat, You Eat"

"I Eat, You Eat" is a project founded by Shawn Smith in Jackson, Mississippi in early 2010. The premise is socially motivated to impact the issue of hunger in the United States. Shawn Smith holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Biology, from Jackson State University. Astounded by a statistic shown in a commercial on a local television station which quoted that 1 in 8 American citizens deals with hunger in some form or another; when the United States of America does so much to improve conditions involving hunger in other countries. Shawn developed this idea of "I Eat, You Eat" while dining out one day. She finished eating and realized that there is always so much food left over when she and many other people finish eating. She wondered how it would be possible to instead of wasting so much food, how could it be used to feed those in need. Already active in community service providing meals for the homeless through a non-profit organization, Shawn was continually focused on doing more to help her local community. With these thoughts in overdrive, it was easy for her to take the question of what to do with so much wasted food and develop it into '''"I Eat, You Eat". ''' The solution, while dining out in any forum, fine dining, fast food, home cooking, buffets, she began to purchase additonal meals and distribute them to the local homeless in the community where she lived. No one would want to eat after someone else, especially when they don't know that person, that's why the meals are purchased. She then broadened the impact by providing meals for people who are designated as "needy". The elderly, sick, "shut-in". The program is implemented by word of mouth. Shawn had a belief that like minded, socially active people would be a catalyst for change in this issue. Shawn requires everyone who is told about the program to participate and then tell someone else about the issue and then participate, and so on and so on. The hope of the founder is that through wide spread participation, the impact of hunger in the United States would be lessened by "people caring for people". The disclaimer: "Those people who would desire to do someting negative to people who already have a dire need, need not participate". This should enrich peoples lives and hopefully improve the human connection. Anything that would damage that is prohibited and not supported by the founder.