CCU students volunteer to help others

Here are some fall 2011 highlights from the Office of Volunteer Services.

Feed the Hunger

A group of five students volunteered with Feed the Hunger, a community nonprofit that is committed to helping children in need. CCU students assisted in Feed the Hunger’s pack-a-thon on Oct. 15 at the Sun News in Myrtle Beach. The pack-a-thon was designed to collect nutritious meals that could be shipped to children in the U.S., Caribbean, Africa and Asia. Each packet of food is enough to feed a child for a week. The Myrtle Beach group packed 707 boxes of food, enough to feed 636 school children for the entire year.

Here is a video from the event that even features some CCU students:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_z9Qeja06us

Hunger and Homelessness Week

During National Hunger and Homelessness Awareness Week (the week before Thanksgiving), CCU Volunteer Services hosted a Hunger Banquet, with about 50 students in attendance. The Hunger Banquet is an event sponsored by OxFam America, whose mission is to alleviate hunger in the world by spreading the philosophy that hunger is not a lack of resources but rather a lack of distribution. The Hunger Banquet is an interactive meal that encourages people to release their stereotypes and be given a chance to see what it is like to live in another's shoes. It is also known as “The Most Unfair Meal you will ever have.”

STAR

Students Taking Active Responsibility (STAR) last semester hosted events and collections that helped: Humane Society, Center for Women and Children, DSS Babysitting, Community Kitchen, Beach Sweeps, Coastal Rescue Mission, Operation Christmas Child, Fostering Hope and the Living Farm.