Local Faith Based Responses to Hunger and Healthcare

Irfan Ahmad and Donna Camp on faith-based responses to hunger and health care. The president of the Avicenna Community Health Center, a free clinic launched in 2008-09 out of the local Islamic center and named for Ibn Sina, described the uninsured population in Champaign County, the clinic's preventive-care model, student interns, and partnerships with Christian-run clinics. The co-founder and director of the Wesley Evening Food Pantry at Wesley United Methodist Church in Urbana recounted starting a once-a-month evening pantry in 2006 and the client-choice and non-proselytizing values behind it. Audience Q&A followed.