Join us for the 4th Annual NOVA SERVES: MLK Day of Service. The service event will take place on Saturday, January 19th from 10:00am-2:00pm at the NOVA Alexandria campus. This year’s event will consist of assembling 20,000 food kits in partnership with the Stop Hunger Now* organization. T-shirts will be provided to the first 250 volunteers.

Join the movement to end hunger in our lifetime! Help us reach our goal to package 20,000+ meals on January 19th. Working together we can create a world without hunger.

To register go to: http://goo.gl/5vqST

If you should have any questions, please email fvillagrangl@nvcc.edu

*Stop Hunger Now is a Raleigh-based international hunger relief agency that has been fulfilling its commitment to end hunger for 13 years. 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. Each meal costs only 25 cents. The food stores easily, has a shelf-life of five years and transports quickly.

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.