logo
logo
Sign in

Alaska Airlines launches Million Meals Challenge to feed families left hungry by Coronavirus

avatar
steve Johanson
Alaska Airlines launches Million Meals Challenge to feed families left hungry by Coronavirus

This is a troublesome time for some, and nourishment security is a test over our networks. A week ago, the United Nations anticipated that in view of COVID-19, the quantity of individuals confronting serious nourishment frailty worldwide could twofold to 265 million. Furthermore, here in the United States, remarkable degrees of occupation dislodging and gracefully chain disturbance have made an emergency for incalculable families, many looking for help without precedent for their lives.

Alaska Airlines Reservations (AS) 844-650-5822: Alaska Airlines Tickets

Supporting the developing requests on our neighborhood nourishment banks is a basic need and isn't new for Alaska Airlines Reservations and Horizon Air. Consistently, our representatives rally together in a "Pack the Plane" nourishment drive and gathered enough gifts to fill a likeness more than 20 payload airplane (giving just about a half-million suppers) a year ago. During our debut "Seven day stretch of LIFT" of chipping in our networks last October, our representatives worked at a few West Coast nourishment banks to pack dinners and sort products to help feed those out of luck.

Along these lines, when we wound up with new nourishment close by following the suspension of our inflight administration a month ago, we worked with our kitchen accomplices to give 273,000 dinners to network nourishment banks in 16 states, similar to our old neighborhood accomplices Northwest Harvest and Food Lifeline.

That started a thought regarding how to additionally bolster families have the nourishment they have to flourish. A week ago, the Alaska Airlines Foundation, a free 501(c)(3) non-benefit, vowed $200,000 to give 896,000 suppers to 14 neighborhood nourishment banks across Alaska, Washington, Oregon, California and Hawaii. Together, we've given more than 1 million suppers, yet would like to twofold our effect by welcoming our workers and visitors to go along with us, in the event that they can.

"This emergency has changed such a great amount in our nation – yet the estimations of our workers have not. They and our accomplices, including our Chief Football Officer Russell Wilson and his better half Ciara, Starbucks, and numerous others rouse us to accomplish more," said Diana Birkett Rakow, Alaska Airlines Vice President of External Relations. "Among now and the finish of May, we're empowering our visitors, accomplices and representatives to go along with us in the #MillionMealsChallenge to help fuel another 1 million dinners for nearby nourishment banks taking care of our networks."

The Alaska Airlines Foundation was established in 1998 as a manner to help the networks we serve through high points and low points – including during lean conditions such as these. "We're appreciative to have establishment assets to have the option to straightforwardly bolster individuals who need it most," said Birkett Rakow, who additionally fills in as seat of the Alaska Airlines Foundation governing body.

To see airlines offers visit at ANA Reservations and ExpressJet Reservations

collect
0
avatar
steve Johanson
guide
Zupyak is the world’s largest content marketing community, with over 400 000 members and 3 million articles. Explore and get your content discovered.
Read more