Student Organizations AU Committee of 19 Universities Fighting World Hunger

I believe in the human touch, which cultivates sympathy with
my fellow men and mutual helpfulness and brings happiness for all.

And because Auburn men and women believe in these things,
I believe in Auburn and love it!

from The Auburn Creed - George Petrie (1945)

The spirit of competition at HSOP is alive and well! During Auburn University's Hunger Week October 12-16th, the HSOP Committee of 19 placed a special emphasis on collecting spare change to raise money for the East Alabama Food Bank and participate in the Beat Bama Food Drive. Our HSOP Committee of 19 challenged each class to bring in spare change in a competition to see which class could raise the most money. It takes a quarter a day to feed a person thru the World Food Programme, so the Committee of 19 added to the competitive spirit by identifying quarters as a target coin.

Through a complicated scoring system, the P1 class won the week's competition, but HSOP and the East Alabama Food Bank were the true winners. Over $1240 in coins was collected in Auburn and at the Mobile campus. The vision of the Auburn University Committee of 19 is for Auburn University to become the catalyst mobilizing universities across the nation and around the globe to make fighting hunger a core value of higher education institutions worldwide.

In addition to the Coin Drop, HSOP students contacted Chick-Fil-A, Moe's, and Bizilia's restaurants. These restaurants graciously gave a portion of their receipts for one day to the East Alabama Food Bank. The events of Hunger Week show that HSOP students CAN make a difference.

Prior to the Auburn vs Kentucky football game on October 18, 2009, the Auburn University Committee of 19 was recognized for their efforts to fight world hunger as a culmination of Hunger Week. In addition to the introduction of our HSOP Committee of 19 representative Denise Kelley, P2, another HSOP student Prital Patel, P1, was introduced as the representative from the International Student Organization.

Our VISION:
for AU to become the catalyst mobilizing universities across the nation and around the globe to make fighting hunger a core value of higher education institutions worldwide.

Our MISSION:
to create an academic hunger model suitable for replication or adaptation by universities in the US and abroad.

Our GOAL:
to develop and implement an action agenda for students and faculty that encompasses hunger awareness and consciousness-raising, fundraising, advocacy, and academic initiatives.

Hunger Facts:

• Hunger and poverty claim 25,000 lives every day

• Every five seconds a child dies because she or he is hungry

• More than 15% of Alabama residents live in poverty

• In some Alabama counties, poverty affects almost 30% of the population

• One out of every five children in Alabama lives in poverty

• One out of every four Alabama seniors lives below the poverty level

• Alabama ranks 12th among states in the U.S. for hunger risk

Officers

President: Denise Kelley	Vice President: Emily Bullington	Secretary: Jennifer Kerns
Publicity Chair: Ben Huluka	Faculty Advisor: Anna Solomon