What’s Cooking at FSU?
posted by Fatima Butt | November 25, 2015 | In NewsThe Campus Kitchens Project (CKP) is a national leader in community service for students and is the future of hunger relief. CKP is empowering the next generation of leaders to implement innovative models for combating hunger, developing food systems and giving back to their communities.
Campus Kitchens Projects partner with high schools, colleges, and universities to share on-campus kitchen space, recover food from cafeterias and engage students as volunteers who prepare and deliver meals to the community.
Student volunteers develop partnerships, recover food, plan menus, run cooking shifts, organize drivers, garden, glean and teach nutrition education to children and families. Every campus kitchen is set up differently, to cater to the needs of the community and what the university or school can offer. So far, CKP are at 49 schools around the country.
Campus Kitchen is officially coming to Fayetteville State University, it will be the first HBCU in North Carolina to have one, and second in the entire nation! CKP offered grant opportunities for food recovery. In order to receive one of their 5,000 launch grants, university’s submitted a documentary stating why it is essential for their community to have one. From November 2nd– November 9th a voting process began and the top three schools with the most votes would be given the grant. Three schools were granted this opportunity Arkansas Tech University, Baldwin Wallace University, and Fayetteville State University.
Stacye Blount is the advisor and oversees the entire project; because of her so much of this is possible. She has attended many conferences in order to see how Campus Kitchens are successfully executed. Joel Cook, the student coordinator, mentioned how his vision would not be possible with all the time and effort Ms. Blount has put into this project.
Now that the grant has been approved to us, it would not officially begin until next year, but the process will begin in April. The set up and getting student volunteers will be the main concern. If you are interested in helping and providing leadership abilities, want service learning opportunities, and want to take part in building and giving back to community, then this is something for you. You can contact Joel directly or email Stacye Blount at: sblount@uncfsu.edu.
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