January 28, 2010 News
The Chapel Hill-Carrboro Chamber of Commerce has selected TABLE as the 2009 Business of the Year in the Newcomer Business Category! Read more at the Chamber of Commerce Web Site.
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12% of area residents worry that they'll run out of food before the next time they can buy more? Children are among the groups most likely to be affected by a shortage of food? Children within 5 miles of the UNC campus go to bed hungry at night?
TABLE is a non-profit organization that brings college students and community volunteers together to help feed hungry children in the Chapel Hill-Carrboro area. We are located at 205 W. Weaver Street in Carrboro - 1/4 mile from Weaver Street Market.
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Here's WHO gets help: TABLE serves local children at risk for hunger, especially during weekends and when free public school meals are not available. Here's HOW it works Participating children receive "loaner" backpacks on Fridays containing a variety of healthy food for the weekend, such as milk and juice boxes, cans of meat, vegetables, and fruit, breakfast food, and even a few snacks. Receiving food in backpacks - not grocery bags - allows children a sense of privacy. Empty backpacks are returned on Mondays to school or after-school programs for pick-up by TABLE volunteers. Here's what TABLE is doing Recruiting college student and community volunteers for this project. Here's what YOU can do You can fill, deliver, or pick up backpacks. You can help get more volunteers involved, more food available and more contributions coming in. You can take a leadership role or help out just when you can. You can make a difference in some child's life, and along the way, make a difference in your own. |
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