Celebration of World Food Day with the launch of “Let’s Eat Week”
announces new partnerships to fight child hunger in its local communities
NEW BERLIN, NY, October 3, 2023 /PRNewswire/ — Chobani, a next-generation food and beverage company known for its Greek yogurt, continues its efforts to use food as a force for good, with a focus on fighting hunger among children and on improving the communities in which it operates. To mark World Food Day, the company announced a week-long initiative, Let’s Eat Weekwhere employees and influential community members from Chobani’s hometowns will volunteer to assemble and distribute meals to feed more than 8,000 children and families in need.
The fight for good food
Additionally, Chobani has committed to supporting nine organizations to strengthen and energize efforts to end child hunger at hyper-local levels. The partnerships will focus on programs focused on hunger in schools and children, as well as those addressing food insecurity more broadly in Chobani’s backyards, including in New York City, Central New York, Twin Falls, Idaho, and regional sales offices. Partners include Apple Seeds, Brighter Bites, Childhood Food Solutions, City Harvest, Community Cupboard, Every Meal, Helping Hands, Minnie’s Food Pantry and Mustard Seed.
“Children are the most vulnerable people on the planet because they depend on others to meet their needs, but they deserve access to good, nutritious food. We believe businesses have a critical role to play in creating a world where no child goes. bed hunger, and by focusing on this issue through vital partnerships and actions, we continue to fight child hunger, one community at a time,” said Nishant RoyChobani, head of impact and communications.
Childhood hunger is a significant problem affecting millions of children around the world. According to Feeding America, United States Nine million children alone are food insecure.1 Close to the home and heart of Chobani, more than 10% of children Twin Falls County2 and 12% of children Chenango County3 experience food insecurity.
Let’s Eat Week and the local partnerships announced today build on Chobani’s ongoing efforts to combat childhood hunger. To push for collective action and help advance the fight against the country’s child hunger crisis, Chobani continually advocates for free school meals, even going so far as to pay off students’ meal debt schools, and launched its Food Access In Reach (FAIR) program to partner with schools in its country. communities to ensure the food and nutritional security of their students. The brand also hosted a virtual summit on child hunger and launched Chobani® Lot against child hunger, a Greek yogurt with lemon and a base of real raspberries, which supports Edesia – a global non-profit organization that produces specialized foods designed to combat severe malnutrition. On a hyper-local level, Chobani has led several initiatives, including partnering with local organizations to donate produce and fund backpack programs that help feed students, donating refrigerators to child care eating schools, feeding children during spring break, funding school programs around nutrition and food education, and much more.
ABOUT CHOBANI
Chobani is a food manufacturer with a mission to make high-quality, nutritious food accessible to more people, while uplifting our communities and making the world a healthier place. In short: prepare good food for everyone. To support this mission, Chobani is a people-first company focused on food and wellness, and since its founding in 2005 by Hamdi Ulukayaan immigrant to the United States. The company manufactures yogurt, oat milkAnd creamers made from dairy and vegetable products – Chobani yogurt is the #1 yogurt brand in the United States, made with natural ingredients without artificial preservatives.
Chobani uses food as a force for good in the world, putting humanity first in everything it does. The company’s philanthropic efforts prioritize its communities and beyond: working to end childhood hunger, supporting immigrants, refugees and underrepresented people, honoring veterans and protecting the planet. Chobani products are made in new York, IdahoAnd Australiaand are available everywhere North America and distributed in Australia and other selected markets. For more information, please visit www.chobani.com and follow us Facebook, Twitter, Instagram And LinkedIn.
1 https://www.feedingamerica.org/hunger-in-america
2 https://map.feedingamerica.org/county/2021/child/idaho/county/twin-falls
3 https://map.feedingamerica.org/county/2021/child/new-york/county/chenango
SOURCE Chobani, LLC
