by BECKY GOFF
Little Apple Post
MANHATTAN - Students from Manhattan High School's Civic Engagement Club hosted a community conversation on Monday about food insecurity in Riley County.
Community leaders and students split into sub-groups to discuss ways to combat the food insecurity within the Manhattan community.
The discussion included how to ensure people have access to the food they need, improving access to nutritious food, and how to be good stewards of the food system.
Discussion of how to avoid food waste, find solutions to eliminate food deserts. Food deserts are areas where access to grocery stores is limited without having access to transportation.
"Hearing insight from all these different organizations allowed us to come up with a bunch of different action plans that we will try and implement within the community based off of these discussions. I would say that change is possible through collaboration. We have all the resources here in Riley County to combat food insecurity. We just need to make sure that everyone collaborates and extends those partnerships so that one day we can live in a county where food insecurity is a problem for a lot of our population." MHS Civic Engagement Club, co-president, Raisa Hossaim says.