Campus 餐厅 To Serve Up Goodwill at Valdosta Soup Kitchen

VALDOSTA - Valdosta State University’s Campus 餐厅, operated by Sodexo Campus Services, will serve more than 100 people at the Valdosta Soup Kitchen on Thursday and Friday, Nov. 20-21, in continued support to help stop hunger.

The university’s food service provider is committed to encouraging it’s employees to fight hunger in their communities and to promote 饥饿意识. Each winter, thousands of Sodexo employees help raise money, donate food and serve meals in communities across the 国家.
“Our hope is that this event will truly make a difference for those who are just ‘getting by’ and experiencing the devastating effects of hunger,” said Rich Yokeley, Sodexo Campus Services general 弗吉尼亚州立大学经理. “It presents each of us with the opportunity to reach out to help strengthen our community.”

Just last week, Campus 餐厅 sponsored a canned food drive at bet365亚洲官网 that helped bring in more than 3,400 lbs of food and $600 in financial donations, both benefiting 美国’s Second Harvest of South Georgia’s Valdosta Food Bank.

Hunger currently affects 35 million people in the U.S.,包括 超过12个.400万儿童. Since 1999, Sodexo and the Sodexo Foundation, have been committed to being a driving and creative force that contributes to a hunger-free nation, one community at a time. The Sodexo Foundation (www.helpstophunger.org)是一个 independent charitable organization leading the fight against hunger by supporting initiatives that focus on eliminating the root causes of hunger in the U.S.

Administrative 成本 are paid by 索迪斯公司. 确保100 percent of donations go directly to serving those in need.

索迪斯公司. (www.索迪斯.com) is a leading integrated food and facilities management services 在美国的公司.S., Canada and Mexico, with $7.30亿美元 annual revenue and 125,000 employees. 索迪斯公司. 服务范围超过 ten million customers daily in corporations, health care, long term care and retirement centers, schools, college campuses, government 和远程站点. 索迪斯公司., headquartered in Gaithersburg, Md., is a member of Sodexo Group, and funds the Sodexo Foundation (www.helpstophunger.org), an independent charitable organization that, since its founding in 1999, has made more than $9.2 million in grants to fight hunger in 美国.

关于饥饿的事实
美国’s Second Harvest defines the hungry as those who can’t buy enough food to meet basic nutritional needs. 美国农业部目前 states that more than 35 million 美国ns* are at risk of hunger, including 超过12个.400万儿童. Sodexo’s STOP Hunger initiative takes action to raise money, increase 饥饿意识 and provide essential community services that really matter.

Hunger and the Working Poor
In the last decade, hunger-relief agencies have found that the greatest increase in 美国ns at risk of hunger has been among the 穷忙族. Despite the strong economy and their own hard work, they often must choose between paying for food or other basic needs like shelter, health care, childcare, utilities and transportation 成本. This troubling dilemma is leaving some of our most vulnerable citizens, children and the 上了年纪的, at risk of hunger. In fact, nearly half of 美国’s hungry are children and the 上了年纪的. The 穷忙族 (employed adults with low-paying jobs) are now the fastest-growing group at emergency food programs throughout the nation.