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Service NC State volunteers take relief efforts to record level.
On Saturday, August 26, more than 1,500 NC State University students, faculty, staff and area community members came together to package a record 301,752 meals in partnership with Stop Hunger Now, an international relief organization headquartered in Raleigh, NC.
"Each person who participated walked away understanding more about world hunger," said Mike Giancola, director of the Center for Student Leadership, Ethics and Public Service at NC State University. "The problem with hunger is not food supply, but policy, will and putting the food in the right places. Here we begin to fight hunger at a different level."
Volunteers worked tirelessly throughout the day, weighing, bagging and packaging dehydrated rice-soy meals earmarked for Haitian schoolchildren and Peruvian earthquake victims. Generous donations from several NC State University organizations and a number of local and regional businesses made it possible to shatter last year's total of 153,792 highly-nutritious meals prepared.
Service NC State (SNCS) is the definitive service event to welcome new students to NC State's campus and impact the community. It is held on the first Saturday after classes begin each fall and sponsored by the Center for Student Leadership, Ethics & Public Service.