Committee of 19 members honored at the Auburn vs
Florida game, October 15, 2011
Student Organizations AU Committee of 19 Universities Fighting World Hunger
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from The Auburn Creed - George Petrie (1945) Make Hunger Disappear - October 2011 - Click for Story written by Sarah Montgomery Hunger March 2011
Guelph Hunger Summit With the support of alumni and Dean Evans, the following students participated in the 6th Annual University Hunger Summit held at the University of Guelph in Canada in February 2011.
"Zap Out Hunger" Laser Tag Tournament The Division of Student Affairs 2010 Top 5 Miss Auburn Campaign sponsored the "Zap Out Hunger" Laser Tag Tournament held in the Auburn Student Center ballroom on February 26, 2011. Since Auburn University leads a student-run War on Hunger effort, the "Zap Out Hunger" Laser Tag Tournament raised money to benefit the World Food Programme. It involved approximately 150 teams that competed for the grand prize of a private tour of Jordan-Hare stadium. The Auburn University Harrison School of Pharmacy had a team that competed in the tournament, representing their school and the pharmaceutical fraternity Kappa Psi.
Members of "The Vaccinators" (above, l-r: Jeremy Smith, Justin Owensby, Mohammad Rahman, and Sean Heironimus) all competed for the cause. Of the 150 teams that competed in the tournament, these 4 individuals fought valiantly but fell in the semi-final rounds to claim 5th place in the tournament. Based on entrance fees, a projected amount of money raised by the tournament is estimated at $9,000. Therefore, since you can feed a hungry school child thru the World Food Programme for 25 cents a day, this single event could provide about 36,000 meals to hungry school children around the world. And a special thanks to our cheerleaders, Samantha Pelham, Dipti Topiwala, and Robert Cassidy!
Auburn University and the University of Oregon team up to fight hunger in Arizona
While traveling to Glendale for the BCS National Championship game to support our Auburn Tigers, some of our students volunteered at an Arizona food bank. You can read about this event and the references to the War on Hunger and the Committee of 19 here: http://wireeagle.auburn.edu/news/2091 Students Make 60-Mile March for Hunger Awareness
To learn more about the Hunger March and the partnership between Auburn University and the United Nations World Food Programme, go to the Web site (http://www.auburn.edu/hunger ).
Through a complicated scoring system, the P1 class won the week's competition, but HSOP and the East Alabama Food Bank were the true winners. Over $1240 in coins was collected in Auburn and at the Mobile campus. The vision of the Auburn University Committee of 19 is for Auburn University to become the catalyst mobilizing universities across the nation and around the globe to make fighting hunger a core value of higher education institutions worldwide. In addition to the Coin Drop, HSOP students contacted Chick-Fil-A, Moe's, and Bizilia's restaurants. These restaurants graciously gave a portion of their receipts for one day to the East Alabama Food Bank. The events of Hunger Week show that HSOP students CAN make a difference.
Prior to the Auburn vs Kentucky football game on October 18, 2009, the Auburn University Committee of 19 was recognized for their efforts to fight world hunger as a culmination of Hunger Week. In addition to the introduction of our HSOP Committee of 19 representative Denise Kelley, P2, another HSOP student Prital Patel, P1, was introduced as the representative from the International Student Organization. Our VISION: for AU to become the catalyst mobilizing universities across the nation and around the globe to make fighting hunger a core value of higher education institutions worldwide. Our MISSION: to create an academic hunger model suitable for replication or adaptation by universities in the US and abroad. Our GOAL: to develop and implement an action agenda for students and faculty that encompasses hunger awareness and consciousness-raising, fundraising, advocacy, and academic initiatives. Hunger Facts:
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The
Committee of 19 sponsored a Hunger March to raise awareness for local
hunger insecurity in Macon County. Several HSOP students participated
in a Health Fair at a local grocery store and provided free Blood
Pressure checks and body weight analysis. Kent Owusu, Sarah Montgomery,
Jenn Kerns and Denise Kelley answered many questions about health care.
A group
of Auburn students and other concerned citizens embarked on a three-day,
60-mile hunger march from the Auburn University campus to the steps of
the state capitol in Montgomery to raise awareness about the issues of
hunger and poverty both in Alabama and around the world. This will be
the second hunger march to Montgomery organized by the Auburn University
Committee of 19. Marchers began on Saturday, March 27, at 8 a.m.
and walked along Highway 14 to Tallassee. After staying at Elam Baptist
Church in Tallassee on Saturday night and Lakeview Baptist Church
outside Montgomery on Sunday night, the students marched the final 10
miles on Monday to the steps of the capitol where they will held a rally
at 12 noon. A number of politicians, including gubernatorial candidates
in the 2010 race were invited to speak.
Eight
HSOP pharmacy students participated in the weekend March: Kent Owusu,
Sarah Montgomery, Prital Patel, Liz Beltran, Charlie Darling, Laurie
VanDeventer, Anna Aaron, Denise Kelley and faculty advisor Anna Solomon
are pictured on the left.
The spirit of competition at HSOP is alive and well! During Auburn University's Hunger Week October 12-16th, the HSOP Committee of 19 placed a special emphasis on collecting spare change to raise money for the East Alabama Food Bank and participate in the Beat Bama Food Drive. Our HSOP Committee of 19 challenged each class to bring in spare change in a competition to see which class could raise the most money. It takes a quarter a day to feed a person thru the World Food Programme, so the Committee of 19 added to the competitive spirit by identifying quarters as a target coin. 
