Northridge : CSUN Group Mounts Anti-Hunger Drive
A student group at Cal State Northridge will sponsor a food drive next week as part of a worldwide effort to draw attention to global hunger.
The Student Dietetics Assn. will place collection bins at several points around campus on Monday and Tuesday, including the Oviatt Library, the Matador bookstore, the University Student Union’s fitness center and the Marilyn Magaram Center for Food Science.
“We’re really hoping to get a lot of support and turnout from the students,” said Erin Naimi, a 21-year-old nutrition student and the group’s publicist.
The drive is part of World Food Day, an event commemorating the 1945 founding of the United Nations’ Food and Agriculture Organization that seeks to create a worldwide food availability system.
Naimi said that canned and packaged food collected at CSUN will be turned over to the FAO for distribution. The group will also sponsor a presentation on world hunger at noon Monday in the Magaram Center.
“It would be so easy to solve if each person just donated a little,” Naimi said. “This really isn’t about school spirit--it’s about human spirit.”
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