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An End to Hunger

March 15, 2012 by Aleta Payne, Former Deputy Executive Director

Ending world hunger is a pretty big goal, but the folks at Stop Hunger Now have set it for themselves and have been working toward it for 13 years. With the help of volunteers, the Raleigh-based non-profit packages nutritious dehydrated meals which are shipped to support school feeding and crisis-relief programs around the world. As the Stop Hunger Now website explains, the meals that go to schools have a particularly far-reaching impact:

When hunger is targeted, specifically by supporting school feeding programs, you give leveraged support to other causes including poverty, disease, education and the welfare of women and children.

When the North Carolina Council of Churches decided that the focus of its 2012 Critical Issues Seminar would be on food, it only made sense to partner with a homegrown organization that has done so much to address this issue worldwide. Participants in the April 19 seminar will have a chance at the end of the day to participate in a meal-packaging. An additional fee of $25 helps defray SHN’s cost for supplies and shipping the meals abroad.

We hope that you will register to join us for the seminar and then stay to pack meals so fewer children will go hungry.

–Aleta Payne, Development and Communications

Filed Under: Blog Tagged With: Children & Youth, Council News, Equality & Reconciliation, Human Rights, Hunger, Peace

About Aleta Payne, Former Deputy Executive Director

Aleta Payne first joined the Council staff in the spring of 2001 as the Communications Associate. She continues to oversee that work along with development, represents the Council in several partnership efforts, and serves in other administrative roles, as well. Aleta is a graduate of the University of Virginia with a degree in government and foreign affairs and spent much of her early career as a journalist. She has three young adult sons who continue to come home to Cary for dinner, or at least groceries, and two young adult terrier-mix dogs who keep the nest from feeling too empty.

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