272 volunteers rolled up their sleeves to participate in Northern Virginia Community College’s (NOVA’s) 9th Annual Martin Luther King, Jr. Day of Service. In addition to donating hygiene products, students, faculty, staff, and community members of all ages participated in 5 concurrent service projects to benefit NOVA students and Shelter House families. To kick off the service projects, NOVA President Dr. Scott Ralls, Alexandria Campus Provost Dr. Annette Haggray, Alexandria Mayor Allison Silberberg, and Shelter House CEO Joe Meyer provided insightful words and encouragement. As a collective, we answered the call to serve by:
• Preparing 250 baby formula packets
• Sorting 500 pounds of food for the college campus pantries
• Preparing 1275 laundry packets for Shelter House
• Collecting over 5000 hygiene products
• Assembling 1000 hygiene kits for the college campus pantries
January 15, 2018 truly was a day on. Special thanks to everyone who did their part to achieve greatness through service.
“Everybody can be great because everybody can serve.”
– Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

Photo by Neil (Kevin) Mattingly

Mark your calendars for Monday, January 16th!

Join us for the 8th Annual NOVA SERVES: MLK Day of Service. The service event will take place on Monday, January 16, 2017 from 10:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. at the Alexandria Campus. This year’s event will consist of assembling 30,000 food kits in partnership with the Stop Hunger Now organization and the West Springfield Rotary Club.

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Join the movement to end hunger in our lifetime! Help us reach our goal to package 30,000+ meals. Working together we can create a world without hunger.

*Stop Hunger Now- Since 1998, the organization has coordinated the distribution of food and other lifesaving aid to children and families in countries all over the world. Stop Hunger Now created its meal-packaging program in 2005. The program perfected the assembly process that combines rice, soy, dehydrated vegetables and a flavoring mix including 21 essential vitamins and minerals into small meal packets. Stop Hunger Now works with international partners that ship and distribute the meals in-country. The majority of Stop Hunger Now’s meals supply school lunch programs. Due to the ease of assembly and transport, meals can be shipped to areas in crisis. This process for distribution, through school feeding programs in hunger-stricken regions, is seen as a practical means to end hunger.

2017 MLK Day of Service
Our registration is filled to capacity. Hope to see you next year!