Students package meals to help feed the world’s hungry
These volunteers at N.C. State’s Carmichael Gym were among the participants who packaged 1,010,374 meals for the University Million Meals event.
Photo by Art Latham
At N.C. State University’s Carmichael Gym more than 1,600 volunteers carefully measured, packaged and sealed the ingredients for meals that will provide life-saving food aid in some of the world’s most crisis-burdened areas. It was all part of the University Million Meals event on Aug. 23, held at three locations — Raleigh, Greenville and Chapel Hill — and hosted by N.C. State, East Carolina University and UNC-Chapel Hill. At the Raleigh site alone more than 400,000 meals were packaged. The volunteers working there were among more than 4,000 from seven area universities and colleges who packaged a record-breaking 1,010,374 meals in one day at the three sites.
Community volunteers joined students from N.C. State, ECU, Peace College, Meredith College, Saint Augustine’s University, N.C. Central University and UNC-CH in efforts organized by Stop Hunger Now, an international relief organization headquartered in Raleigh, in partnership with Service N.C. State, a program sponsored by the Center for Student Leadership, Ethics and Public Service (CSLEPS) at NCSU.
“What we accomplished today is testament to what can happen when people with a common vision work together,” said Mike Giancola, CSLEPS director. “Stop Hunger Now’s vision is a world without hunger — a vision that we share at CSLEPS and one that more than 4,000 volunteers were exposed to today. More than the million meals, having 4,000 people committed to putting an end to hunger — that is the impact of today’s event.”
Stop Hunger Now’s meals include rice, soy, dehydrated vegetables and a vitamin-fortified flavoring mix with 21 essential vitamins and minerals. The event will further Stop Hunger Now’s 2008 campaign to package 5.5 million meals to feed the world’s hungry.
— Terri Leith
Community volunteers joined students from N.C. State, ECU, Peace College, Meredith College, Saint Augustine’s University, N.C. Central University and UNC-CH in efforts organized by Stop Hunger Now, an international relief organization headquartered in Raleigh, in partnership with Service N.C. State, a program sponsored by the Center for Student Leadership, Ethics and Public Service (CSLEPS) at NCSU.
“What we accomplished today is testament to what can happen when people with a common vision work together,” said Mike Giancola, CSLEPS director. “Stop Hunger Now’s vision is a world without hunger — a vision that we share at CSLEPS and one that more than 4,000 volunteers were exposed to today. More than the million meals, having 4,000 people committed to putting an end to hunger — that is the impact of today’s event.”
Stop Hunger Now’s meals include rice, soy, dehydrated vegetables and a vitamin-fortified flavoring mix with 21 essential vitamins and minerals. The event will further Stop Hunger Now’s 2008 campaign to package 5.5 million meals to feed the world’s hungry.
— Terri Leith