Hunger Relief
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Sodexo, Colby's food service contractor, makes feeding the hungry a corporate priority. They encourage all accounts to make arrangements with local food banks to receive unexpected overproduction due to last-minute count changes or function cancellations and make a point of rewarding outstanding individual efforts. Sodexo sets aside the month of April as a special challenge for all accounts to organize a team effort to fight hunger in their local communities. Since 2003, our management team has joined with our other Maine accounts and the Colby Volunteer Center each spring to organize, prepare, and serve a B-B-Q to 250 children who participate in the Colby mentoring program for disadvantaged youths, "Colby Cares About Kids". Since 2006, Dining Services, together with Colby student volunteers, has joined Sodexo's national annual effort to break the Guiness world record for the largest food drive by a non-charitable organization in a 24-hour period through Sodexo's national "Caring Cans" program. The Caring Cans program was designed to encourage donations of non-perishable food items on college campuses. The year 2008 was our best effort yet when everyone--students, faculty, staff, and Dining employees--came together to donate a total of 8,327 lbs. of food for local food banks. |