Indiana’s Farmers & Hunters Feeding Hungry

Signing up for a fishing or hunting license online or at a DNR facility? Please be sure to consider donating to the Sportsmen’s Benevolence Fund to help pay processing fees for venison donated to Indiana’s food banks! The member food banks of Feeding Indiana’s Hungry work with Indiana’s Farmers & Hunters Feeding Hungry, which facilitates most of the donated meat statewide. FHFH has 22 active coordinators in Indiana, and collectively processed a total of 90,324 pounds of meat in the 2009-2010 hunting season. Protein sources like venison and other wild game are the most wanted yet least available food resource for food banks. The meat from one deer will provide enough for 200 meals! The Sportsmen’s Benevolence Fund pays exclusively for the processing of deer meat to feed Indiana’s hungry. Your donation of $1 or more will help us feed the nearly 280,000 Hoosier households who reduce the amount of food and change eating patterns because there are not enough resources for food. Anything that can be done to increase the donations to our member food banks will be a tremendous and welcome help to our food banks and the hungry citizens we serve. Please consider donating when applying for your fishing or hunting licenses this year! For more information about Feeding Indiana’s Hungry, please visit our website at www.feedingindianashungry.org!

Dubois County Hunt For The Hungry

A total of 126 deer were donated to the 2009 Hunters for the Hungry campaign administered by the Dubois County Sportsmen’s Club. All the donated deer were processed by either Betz Family Processing or Ferdinand Processing and distributed through the Community Food Bank in Jasper and the Shared Abundance Food Bank in Huntingburg. This project directly affected 5,883 families or 18,887 individuals with free venison at the Community Food Bank in Jasper and the Shared Abundance food Bank in Huntingburg. If you would like to donate a legally harvested deer to the Hunters for the Hungry please take it to either Betz Family Processing or Ferdinand Processing and let them know you'd like to donate it. Each time you donate a deer your name will be entered into a drawing for a Mossberg 12 ga. shotgun combo donated by Drs. Gordon & Labhart of Jasper Optical Lab. Thanks. Gene