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Food drive aims to curb student hunger over the holidays
Food drive aims to curb student hunger over the holidays
New report finds 39 per cent of students experienced food insecurity
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Students aim to break cycle of Canadian poverty
A pair of Guelph University scholars are spending their summer travelling across Canada in search of money -- not for their pockets, but rather for the mouths of others.
"We both have a love for adventure. We've talked about doing this for a while and decided why not do this for a cause," said Tyler Valiquette, in town earlier this week as part of his summer bike tour with best friend Jason Morgenstern.
"It's about making students, who are Canada's future, aware that hunger is a problem here and we can make a difference," Morgenstern added.
The Perth, Ont. natives are biking across our home and native land in search of money for Meal Exchange -- a group that provides food organizations in the cities they're based in with money and supplies.
Meal Exchange was founded by students and is run by students.
"Both of us think it's important for young people to get involved in this issue, especially seeing as it deals with our country," Valiquette said.
Meal Exchange directly impacts the nearly 2.7 million Canadians Statistics Canada classifies as living in a food insecure household. This is what the two 21-year-olds say drew them to the organization... Read More
Students urged to rethink what it means to be a volunteer by using Social Media
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GuelphMercury.com - News - Students urged to rethink what it means to be a volunteer
Students urged to rethink what it means to be a volunteer
January 23, 2011
Thana Dharmarajah, Mercury staff
GUELPH — You can be an uncommitted volunteer or an active volunteer, says Meal Exchange’s executive director Dave Kranenburg, in urging students to use social media to spark change.
“At the end of the day, it is about action,” he said to a group of University of Guelph students that turned out to hear him speak Saturday at the Do So Much weekend conference at the university.
The conference, organized by the Student Volunteer Connections, included a lineup of speakers aimed at igniting new volunteers through exposing them to new ways of thinking.
Kranenburg started working at the University of Guelph’s Meal Exchange chapter while he was a student. The organization is based on the concept that students on university campuses can donate their leftover meal plan points at the end of the year to local food banks.
It is now thriving with more than 50 chapters on campuses across Canada. Kranenburg spoke to students Saturday about using social media to increase their involvement.
However, merely “liking” a Facebook group and signing petitions doesn’t take much commitment, he said.
“It lets you form relationships with people, but all of it needs to lead to something,” Kranenburg said. “When you think of social change, it is about pursuing that ... Otherwise, it is just status updates.”
Social media can be used to connect with people who are like-minded, he said, and can lead to form a support network for your cause.
“Thinking in terms of networks allows you to visualize change as it is happening and develop strategies to sustain the change,” Kranenburg said.
Melanie Martens, a first-year international development student in the audience, said she liked how Kranenburg spoke about using social media to not feel isolated and to fundraise.
“I loved what he said about it’s not just him against the world,” she said.
The co-ordinator of the Do So Much Weekend, Jordan Thompson, said he wanted to see speakers such as Kranenburg help conference participants rethink and redefine volunteerism and how vital it is.
Imagine, he said, if every volunteer in the city went on strike tomorrow. No one would answer the phone at the distress centre, people would have trouble getting food at the food bank and students would go to school without a proper breakfast, Thompson said.
Volunteering is something a community truly needs, he said.
“It is real,” Thompson said. “It is holding our community together. It is really the glue.”
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