We're trying to start a new twitter trend here at #twitterforfood to raise awareness for food banks, will you help us?
Every day, we're hunting on twitter for people volunteering at food banks and hunger organizations by searching the terms: Food Bank and Foodbank. Many of the 30 million tweeters across the globe post tweets like these:
rox74ever at the houston food bank. im bout 2 volunteer.... too early...
Laurabeth85 Gettin some breakfast before headin to the foodbank this morning!!
markkuykendall Headed to East Texas Food Bank to volunteer this morning.
Kymoraaa Food bank then the gym. Hello Saturday Morning (:
What we're doing is retweeting these and adding the hashtag #HungerHeroes.
How does this help? People need encouragement to see that others are giving up time to fight hunger in their local communities. These #HungerHeroes can be examples to million on twitter that we all need to do our part. Perhaps some can't volunteer, but can give - #HungerHeroes can bring awareness to giving also.
So in addition to joining every month in the #twitterforfood event that happens on the 1st of the month (skip a meal and use the savings to fund local and global hunger relief) join us in creating awareness with the #HungerHeroes trend! Anytime you see someone working to relieve hunger, retweet them and use the #HungerHeroes hashtag.
Simply,
Tim