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Hunger crisis tackled by student group
Carly Doenges
Issue date: 9/21/07 Section: News
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Saint Louis University has a long history of being an institution that places much emphasis on service. One of the newest groups to reach the SLU community, Nourish International, headed by sophomore Milap Dubal, aims to continue that tradition by working to relieve the hunger crisis in impoverished areas of the world.
Nourish International was started in 2002 by Sindhura Citineni, a student at The University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill. Citineni's goal was simple: create a group that would work to relieve hunger and poverty on an international scale.
This was accomplished by partnering with the university's dining services to provide affordable meals for members of the university community. The proceeds from these meals were then given directly to an impoverished community (the first was in India), with a plan to use the funds to help the area on a long-term scale.
Citineni's idea took off, and there are now nine chapters of Nourish International. Each chapter promotes the same mission, as stated by the organization's website: "to empower students to become agents of positive social change…uniquely develop entrepreneurial, leadership, and management skills, and heighten global poverty awareness among college students as they collaboratively work with international non-profit programs to alleviate the poverty-hunger crisis."
Here at SLU, Milap Dubal has founded a new chapter of Nourish International. Dubal, a native of North Carolina, first heard about Nourish International from a friend at North Carolina State who was involved in the program. Dubal liked the concept of the organization so much that he decided to start up the program at SLU.
"You can see and hear and feel the results because members actually go to the communities," said Dubal, in regards to what most drew him to Nourish International. The main aims of the group are to spread awareness about international poverty and hunger, and to aid in relieving those problems through two main activities: an international project, and ventures.
Nourish International was started in 2002 by Sindhura Citineni, a student at The University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill. Citineni's goal was simple: create a group that would work to relieve hunger and poverty on an international scale.
This was accomplished by partnering with the university's dining services to provide affordable meals for members of the university community. The proceeds from these meals were then given directly to an impoverished community (the first was in India), with a plan to use the funds to help the area on a long-term scale.
Citineni's idea took off, and there are now nine chapters of Nourish International. Each chapter promotes the same mission, as stated by the organization's website: "to empower students to become agents of positive social change…uniquely develop entrepreneurial, leadership, and management skills, and heighten global poverty awareness among college students as they collaboratively work with international non-profit programs to alleviate the poverty-hunger crisis."
Here at SLU, Milap Dubal has founded a new chapter of Nourish International. Dubal, a native of North Carolina, first heard about Nourish International from a friend at North Carolina State who was involved in the program. Dubal liked the concept of the organization so much that he decided to start up the program at SLU.
"You can see and hear and feel the results because members actually go to the communities," said Dubal, in regards to what most drew him to Nourish International. The main aims of the group are to spread awareness about international poverty and hunger, and to aid in relieving those problems through two main activities: an international project, and ventures.
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