Save The Date: Statewide Hunger and Homelessness Conference

Hungry for Change: Connecticut Symposium on Hunger and Homelessness
Saturday, April 5, 2008
Bishop Center, UConn, Storrs Campus

• Featuring workshops on Affordable Housing, Hunger and the Local Community, Advocacy and Activism, Fair Trade, and Youth and Adult Homelessness.
• Featuring the Faces of Homelessness Panel.
• For more information about the conference, email cthungerconference08@gmail.com, or call the UConnPIRG office at (860) 486-5002.

Register today in order to reserve your spot for the conference. All registered students will receive a free lunch and conference t-shirt. 

There is plenty of food worldwide to feed the existing human population. In fact, the world produces 10% more food today than is needed to feed everyone. Yet millions of people throughout the world and the United States currently exist without adequate food and shelter. The U.S. is one of the richest, most advanced nations in the world and could easily end hunger and homelessness if we prioritized it as a society. Experts estimate that if we fully funded federal assistance programs, we could end domestic hunger in five years. The problems of hunger and homelessness worsen each year as critical societal decisions are made based on special interests instead of the public's interest.

ConnPIRG students volunteer in shelters, raise money for food banks, and participate in educational events on campus. Our biggest event of the year is the Hunger Cleanup, which takes place each April. The Hunger Cleanup is a serve-a-thon, where students get people to sponsor them for each hour that they volunteer on a Saturday. This way, students provide both people-power in the form of volunteers, and money to help support the organizations that need it most.