Seven Washington Metropolitan Area Universities are teaming up to fight
hunger in an End Of Semester Food Drive during the months of November and
December. All Food collected will be given to the Capital Area Food Bank
which is coordinating the food relief effort. The food drive is sponsored
by Students Team Up To Fight Hunger (STUFH) and will include The
University of Maryland, Georgetown, George Washington, Howard, American,
Catholic and George Mason universities. According to figures compiled by
the Capital Area Food Bank, approximately 633,000 residents in the
Washington, D.C. Metropolitan area are at risk of hunger and of this
number, 200,000 are children. (2006 Statistics) With the recent economic
downturn, these numbers are greatly increasing and more than ever before,
citizens must step up to help their less fortunate neighbors. Circle
Kiwanis International (CKI) is partnering with STUFH in this Capital drive
and in other similar efforts throughout the country.

For more information,
please contact Dan Kahn at dkahn@stufh.org or Molly McGlinchy of the
Capital Area Food Bank at mcglinchym@capitalareafoodbank.org.