The Caf involves Greek life in Stop Hunger campaign

The Caf involves Greek life in Stop Hunger campaign

By DEMETRIUS HARRISON

News Editor

Once a year, Sodexo ignites its twomonth “Stop Hunger” campaign. This year, it lasts from Oct. 1 to Nov. 30.

The Stop Hunger campaign strives to end local hunger by urging each college and university to support a local charity or non-profit organization.

The Caf supports The AMEN House, which is a local non-profit organization which aims toward ending local poverty. The AMEN House donates food and clothing to children of the Georgetown, Ky community, as well as financially supports families

in need. This year, our dining hall has opened a Charity Pop-Up Shop, located underneath the television across from the waste conveyor belt.

The booth features two boxes: one for students to drop off non-perishable food items, and another for spare change donations.

Students and other community members also have the option to purchase individually wrapped bowls of Kellog and General Mills brand cereal, as the corporations have agreed to donate a portion of the proceeds to Sodexo’s Stop Hunger Foundation. The individually wrapped bowls of cereal are on a rack on the Stop Hunger booth underneath the television as well and can be carried to and purchased from The C-Store.

In other words, each cereal bowl purchased goes toward funding a child’s meal.

Examples of acceptable non-perishable food items are boxes of cereal, granola bars, canned goods, boxed snacks, peanut butter, jelly and bread.

The Caf has also invited each fraternity and sorority on campus to a friendly competition for charity: whichever fraternity or sorority raises the most money to fully donate to The AMEN House will win a pizza party, hosted by The Caf.

Even if you are not involved in campus Greek (or Roman) life, it is highly suggested that you participate in the campaign, as it supports a very generous cause. Again, the Stop Hunger campaign runs from Oct. 1, 2018 until Nov. 30.

For more information on the campaign, you can visit: us.stop-hunger. org/home.html. With any questions regarding the campaign, please feel free to contact Brian, The Caf manager, at Brian.Thompson@Sodexo.com.