
{"id":5455,"date":"2009-04-09T06:45:30","date_gmt":"2009-04-09T14:45:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.carrborocitizen.com\/main\/?p=5455"},"modified":"2009-04-09T06:45:30","modified_gmt":"2009-04-09T14:45:30","slug":"from-hunger-lunch-to-nourish-international","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/2009\/04\/09\/from-hunger-lunch-to-nourish-international\/","title":{"rendered":"From Hunger Lunch to Nourish International"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Jasmina Nogo<br \/>\nStaff Writer<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>What began as a weekly $3 lunch of beans and rice on UNC\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s campus in 2003 became a national student-run nonprofit organization that seeks to eradicate world poverty. Sindura Citineni, a 2004 UNC Kenan-Flagler Business School graduate, started the student group Hunger Lunch and used profits from the meals to fund a nutrition project in Hyderabad, India. <\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153When she was graduating, she started thinking about what Hunger Lunch would look like as a nonprofit,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d said James Dillard, executive director of Nourish International.<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\nIn 2005, Hunger Lunch entered the Carolina Challenge, a business-plan competition. They placed second in the contest and decided to expand to other campuses under the new name, Nourish International.<\/p>\n<p>In 2006, Nourish incorporated as a 501(c)3 nonprofit and the expansion began. Since then, Nourish has added to 23 universities across the country. This year, the movement set an ambitious goal of expanding to 10 new chapters to increase the national impact of Nourish. <\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153Our 20 or so chapters this year are going to run development projects in nine different countries,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Dillard said. <\/p>\n<p>Nourish recruits students to organize chapters at their universities that raise money during the school year to fund selected sustainable-development projects. Students travel abroad over the summer and work alongside members of the community to implement the projects. <\/p>\n<p> \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Our students run small businesses, like Hunger Lunch, which help raise awareness, but also money to implement various projects,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Dillard said.<br \/>\nHunger Lunch is the most successful example of an ongoing Nourish venture. On Wednesday afternoons, chapter members serve lunch in the Pit, charging $4 for a plateful of rice, beans and cornbread. All profits go toward poverty eradication. <\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153Through this process, we have some really great and verifiable work that we can do,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Dillard said. <\/p>\n<p>One of last year\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s projects, conducted by the Emory University chapter of Nourish, partnered with an organization called African Sky in Mali. The mission of the project is to help fund tailors to make hospital scrubs from organic cotton. <\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153There\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a strong demand for this. It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s also a finished product that these tailors and farmers can sell directly to the market. It provides a significantly higher return for them,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Dillard said. <\/p>\n<p>The Mali project will promote the sale of refined products and will provide farmers and tailors with a direct income and fair wages. This is just one example of many Nourish projects. <\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153The whole process outside of my office is completely student run. They\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll raise the money themselves and they\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll travel abroad and fund it completely themselves,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Dillard said. <\/p>\n<p>On April 17, students from the N.C. State, Duke and UNC chapters of Nourish will host a fundraising event in Raleigh called \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Brew Local, Act Global.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d The beer tasting will feature local brews from Lonerider Beer, the Asheville Brewing Company, Natty Greene, Aviator Brewery and Ham\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Brewhouse. <\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153We really do feel like global issues are some of the most important that our country is facing today. You can see that in the global financial crisis, global warming,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Dillard said. The fundraising event hopes to increase international awareness through a community event. <\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153One of the things we think is interesting about Nourish is that we combine local work with global work really interestingly,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Dillard said. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153We want to combine the local with the global.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d <\/p>\n<p>In order to propel this year\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s ambitious goal of 10 new chapters, the organization needs to raise more money. <\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153The money that we raise with the beer tasting is going to help us continue supporting our chapters and helping to expand them in that work that they\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re doing,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Dillard said. <\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153Not only are we doing some really awesome development work, but we\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re preparing students for a lifetime of community work and global citizenship.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<br \/>\n\u00e2\u20ac\u0153Brew Local, Act Global\u00e2\u20ac\u009d will be held at the Mosaic Wine Lounge, 517 W. Jones St. in Raleigh from 6 to 8 p.m. The cost is $30 for one and $50 for couples. Food will be provided by the 518 West Italian Caf\u00c3\u00a9.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Jasmina Nogo Staff Writer What began as a weekly $3 lunch of beans and rice on UNC\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s campus in 2003 became a national student-run nonprofit organization that seeks to eradicate world poverty. 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