#DurhamEats2024
Because we eat together.
What is #DurhamEats2024?
In Durham, there are hundreds of folks that are currently facing hunger and don’t know where their next meal will come from. Food insecurity is becoming a growing problem because of inflation, low wages, unemployment, and poverty. Together, we’re all facing a hunger crisis exacerbated by the effects of capitalism, which is disproportionately impacting poor working class Black and brown folks in Durham. That is why community is more important now than ever.
The mutual aid collective of Duke Med Root Causes, Durham Community Fridges, BaggingIt4Kids, Feed Durham, and Changed Paths are all working to redistribute food that would’ve been thrown out by grocery stores, preparing sandwiches, stocking the community fridges, and cooking hot meals for folks in need. These five organizations in Durham feed hundreds of folks a week, if not thousands a month, but they are in need of more support to continue this mutual aid work.
The #DurhamEats2024 summer campaign, organized by the mutual aid collective, is a call to action. Everyone in Durham deserves access to food regardless of their income, race, ethnicity, language, disability, gender identity, sexuality, or religion. To create a more sustainable network of hunger relief, community members, neighborhoods, churches, and organizations will need to fight with us to ensure that hunger no longer exists in Durham.
The mutual aid collective of Duke Med Root Causes, Durham Community Fridges, BaggingIt4Kids, Feed Durham, and Changed Paths are all working to redistribute food that would’ve been thrown out by grocery stores, preparing sandwiches, stocking the community fridges, and cooking hot meals for folks in need. These five organizations in Durham feed hundreds of folks a week, if not thousands a month, but they are in need of more support to continue this mutual aid work.
The #DurhamEats2024 summer campaign, organized by the mutual aid collective, is a call to action. Everyone in Durham deserves access to food regardless of their income, race, ethnicity, language, disability, gender identity, sexuality, or religion. To create a more sustainable network of hunger relief, community members, neighborhoods, churches, and organizations will need to fight with us to ensure that hunger no longer exists in Durham.
How to Join #DurhamEats2024 Summer Campaign:
1. Research, locate, and encourage at least three churches, businesses, or organizations to become a host of a Durham Community Fridge. Folks who have any interest or questions about this process can email Durham Community Fridges. (Contact information can be found at the bottom of this webpage.)
2. Teachers, students, parents, caretakers, and community members can organize a pantry in at least three schools in Durham. Folks who have any interest or questions about this process can email BaggingIt4Kids. (Contact information can be found at the bottom of this webpage.)
3. Attend or volunteer at least three of #DurhamEats2024 food distributions, pop-ups, or cookouts over the summer. (Contact information for all the mutual aid organizations in Durham can be found at the bottom of this webpage.)
2. Teachers, students, parents, caretakers, and community members can organize a pantry in at least three schools in Durham. Folks who have any interest or questions about this process can email BaggingIt4Kids. (Contact information can be found at the bottom of this webpage.)
3. Attend or volunteer at least three of #DurhamEats2024 food distributions, pop-ups, or cookouts over the summer. (Contact information for all the mutual aid organizations in Durham can be found at the bottom of this webpage.)
- NEXT EVENT ON (8/24): #DurhamEats2024 - Summer Distribution (Saturday)
Durham’s Mutual Aid Collective will be working together to pick up & distribute food to community this summer. Come by and get some food!
Every Saturday at 9:30am at the Farmer Foodshare (902 N. Mangum St)
June: 1, 8, 15, 22, 29
July: 6, 13, 20, 27
August: 3, 10, 17, 24, 31
- NEXT EVENT ON (8/25): #DurhamEats2024 - Summer Distribution (Sunday)
Durham’s Mutual Aid Collective + Emmanuel Praise & Worship Center are working together to pick up + distribute food to community this summer. Come by and get some food!
Every 2nd + 4th Sunday from 9:30 a.m. - 12 p.m. at Fayetteville Street Elementary (2905 Fayetteville St.)
June: 9 + 23
July: 14 + 28
August: 11 + 25
- NEXT EVENT ON (8/31): #DurhamEats2024 - Community Cookout (Saturday)
Durham’s Mutual Aid Collective will be hosting its second community cookout of the summer. Organizations will be tabling and giving away resources. Volunteers will be grilling and serving free hot plates of food to community. Professor X will be spinning at this community event. Also, we’ll have a basketball goal, so community can play a game with us! Come by and get some food!
On Saturday, August 31 at Community Family Life and Recreation Center at Lyon Park (1309 Halley Street) from 11am - 2pm
How To Support #DurhamEats2024 Summer Campaign:
1. Follow Duke Med Root Causes, Durham Community Fridges, BaggingIt4Kids, Feed Durham, and Changed Paths. Help boost their social media content by sharing with folks online and offline. Volunteer with these organizations, and create your own content for social media.
2. Follow and use the hashtag #DurhamEats2024 with pictures or videos of volunteer work with the mutual aid organizations, or of any group of community members, neighborhoods, churches, and organizations doing food justice work in Durham.
3. Remember that mutual aid is a system of care that exists to address the needs, reaches out, and provides support for community. Sharing food with others can help us build long-lasting connections, sustain each other, and give us a pathway to a better future together. That’s why we must to do the work of ensuring #DurhamEats2024!
2. Follow and use the hashtag #DurhamEats2024 with pictures or videos of volunteer work with the mutual aid organizations, or of any group of community members, neighborhoods, churches, and organizations doing food justice work in Durham.
3. Remember that mutual aid is a system of care that exists to address the needs, reaches out, and provides support for community. Sharing food with others can help us build long-lasting connections, sustain each other, and give us a pathway to a better future together. That’s why we must to do the work of ensuring #DurhamEats2024!
BaggingIt4Kids
Volunteers working to eliminate food waste and feed people in Durham, North Carolina.
Changed Paths
A mutual aid project in East Durham our most vulnerable community members facing homelessness, addiction, and food insecurity.
Durham Community Fridges
A mutual aid group that believes in free food for all. A community fridge is a literal fridge, like the one in your kitchen but in a public space, with food free for the taking 24/7 - no questions asked. We strive to redistribute food waste, and provide access to fresh food for all members of our community.
Duke Med Root Causes
Duke University students healing our community through service, advocacy, education.
Feed Durham
Black Indigenous Queer + Trans-led mutual aid. Lovingly prepared food for folks in need.
And a special thanks to all the folks that worked for eight weeks on the hashtag, graphics, and movement together, and creating other promotional materials like flyers, yard signs, shirts, etc. #DurhamEats2024 would not be here, if not, for all the queer women dreaming, creating, and giving language to this movement.