Story Topic for Week 10/21

My story for this week is about a new food challenge that the University of New Hampshire is participating in. The challenge is the $3.13 a Day Food Challenge. This challenge is about the cost of food stamps, and it is asking students to see if they could survive on only $3.13 amount of food a day. This challenge will take place between November 15- 21 of this year. I learned about this challenge from going to a program that the school put on, The Real Food Forum. I have yet to talk to any of the people running this program yet. My main problem was getting people to respond to me in a timely fashion. A lot of the people running this program did not get back to me until the last minute, and are unable to talk in person due to their busy schedules. I also plan on talking to welfare programs to get more background information about food stamps, and also the university's dining department.