Analysis Of Five Hole For Food

Five Hole for Food

Introduction

Five Hole for Food (FHFF) is a Canadian-based, volunteer-compelled, charity entity which engages in a daring, innovative, and risk-taking practice to create awareness and raise food across the nation. Principally, the organization is out to attest that hunger and food shortage can only be eliminated through the action of a willing business society, a caring community together with a supportive government (Mills, 2013, p. 4). In the last three years, the organization has managed to raise more than 450,000 pounds of food and helped fill the Canadian food reserves. With the untiring backing of about 50 volunteers based in Canada, FHFF is able to reach out to a wide range of communities within the country by using hockey as a channel for actualizing social change, as well as reaching out to the contemporary corporate world.

Evolution of FHFF

Richard Loat, the Initiator and boss of the FHFF Enterprise, came up with the idea of establishing such an entity when he was a student attending the Vancouver Olympics in March 2010. He was primarily inspired by the manner in which hockey united and linked people from diverse backgrounds (Wong, 2009, p. 177). After the implausible Winter Olympics, Richard wanted to do something to make use of people’s urge for hockey to establish desirable social changes in the society. He understood that hockey could be a very reliable network for actualizing social change in Canada, and decided to establish the FHFF. As earlier detailed, FHFF is a non-profit oriented community that aims at combining people’s love for hockey with the charity act of raising food or money to the nation’s food reserves (Bidini, 2006, p. 100). In 2010, FHFF organized its first hockey tournament in Q...

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...ly help the large number of people who are willing to join the initiative but are not hockey fanatics while restructuring of management systems help handle the challenge of handling a large number of supporters.

Conclusion

Richard Loat established the FHFF Initiative on March 2010 to help address the issue of food shortage in some parts of Canada. Having been stunned by how hockey games brought a very large group of people during the Vancouver Olympics conducted in 2010, Richard Loat decided to organize such tournaments and collect food to be stored by the Canadian food reserve to help those who were starving in different parts of the country. Beginning with a mere 200 pounds of food, the organization has today collected far much more than 450,000 pounds. This improvement in food collection has been accompanied by a huge increase in the organization’s support base.