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OSU FeelGood dance for hunger awareness
Dance showcase sponsored by group fighting world hunger
Craig Bidiman
Issue date: 2/27/09 Section: Diversions
Never thought a slew of dance crews could help cure the hunger pangs?
Well, tonight at 7 p.m. in Milam Auditorium, the OSU FeelGood group will be putting on a Dance Against Hunger in coordination with the Portland-based Born2Shine project to help raise money and awareness of world hunger.
The OSU FeelGood group, headed up by Co-President Carson Bee, has been on campus since fall 2007 and is eagerly anticipating its first major event on campus.
"We are hoping to raise awareness for some of these global problems that may not hit as hard with college students," Bee said. "There are so many opportunities to get involved, you just need to take the initiative."
Bee, a senior in biology, has a big heart for helping those in countries who don't have the necessities to survive, which is why he started the OSU chapter of FeelGood.
"I started FeelGood at OSU because I saw a lot of local resources that could truly benefit the community in getting involved nationally," he said.
According to its Web site, FeelGood is the first student-run, nonprofit deli. Its major uniqueness comes in the form of selling grilled cheese sandwiches on college campuses across the nation to raise money for the cause to end world hunger.
The OSU chapter of FeelGood has been selling grilled cheese sandwiches in the quad since its inception and plan to be in the MU quad every Wednesday next term as the weather begins to improve. All funds raisedthrough these sales and donations go directly to the Hunger Project.
According to the Hunger Project's Web site, the Hunger Project is a global non-profit organization that carries out its mission of ending hunger in Africa, South Asia and Latin America through three essential activities: mobilizing village clusters at the grassroots level to build self-reliance, empowering women as key change agents, and forging effective partnerships with local government.
An interesting fact, also from its Web site, is that the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) estimates that there are 854 million undernourished people in the world. Of those, 820 million are in still-developing countries. With numbers like this, it is no shock why someone wouldn't want to step in and lend a hand.
Well, tonight at 7 p.m. in Milam Auditorium, the OSU FeelGood group will be putting on a Dance Against Hunger in coordination with the Portland-based Born2Shine project to help raise money and awareness of world hunger.
The OSU FeelGood group, headed up by Co-President Carson Bee, has been on campus since fall 2007 and is eagerly anticipating its first major event on campus.
"We are hoping to raise awareness for some of these global problems that may not hit as hard with college students," Bee said. "There are so many opportunities to get involved, you just need to take the initiative."
Bee, a senior in biology, has a big heart for helping those in countries who don't have the necessities to survive, which is why he started the OSU chapter of FeelGood.
"I started FeelGood at OSU because I saw a lot of local resources that could truly benefit the community in getting involved nationally," he said.
According to its Web site, FeelGood is the first student-run, nonprofit deli. Its major uniqueness comes in the form of selling grilled cheese sandwiches on college campuses across the nation to raise money for the cause to end world hunger.
The OSU chapter of FeelGood has been selling grilled cheese sandwiches in the quad since its inception and plan to be in the MU quad every Wednesday next term as the weather begins to improve. All funds raisedthrough these sales and donations go directly to the Hunger Project.
According to the Hunger Project's Web site, the Hunger Project is a global non-profit organization that carries out its mission of ending hunger in Africa, South Asia and Latin America through three essential activities: mobilizing village clusters at the grassroots level to build self-reliance, empowering women as key change agents, and forging effective partnerships with local government.
An interesting fact, also from its Web site, is that the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) estimates that there are 854 million undernourished people in the world. Of those, 820 million are in still-developing countries. With numbers like this, it is no shock why someone wouldn't want to step in and lend a hand.
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