Hunger Awareness Week
Hunger Awareness Week is next week, November 9th-15th!
- Monday-Thursday: Myles, Towers, Warren and West dining halls will be hosting Oxfam donation tables 4-8pm. You can donate one of your dining hall meals and the proceeds will go directly to Oxfam. Please donate your meals!
- Oxfam is still looking for volunteers to help with the meal donation tables. Please email shinde@bu.edu with your availability if you’re interested in signing up for a timeslot, or come up to the CSC to sign up in person! Shifts are just one hour long.
- Wednesday, November 11th: 3 volunteers are needed 9am-12pm to go to Boston Rescue Mission to help prepare and serve meals.
- Saturday, November 14th: 7 volunteers are needed 9am-12:30pm to go to the South End with the Haley House to do a park clean up, and help make pies in the Haley House Bakery.
- Sunday, November 15th: As many volunteers as are interested are needed at noon for a bakery crawl to all of the bakeries that donate food to SFR. The crawl will stop at Clear Flour Bakery, Flour Bakery, Lyndell’s and Panera Bread and will leave from the GSU.
If you have any questions about the above events, contact SFR at sfr@bu.edu. If you are interested in attending one of the events, please email them with your name, email, phone number, and if you are van trained.
UPDATE 11/5 : Another event added to Hunger Awareness Week!
- Saturday, November 14th: Community Servings Pie Box Party, 11:30-3. Volunteers will transport food from the Greater Boston Food Bank and then make food deliveries.
