The Campus Kitchens Project is doing what it calls a no-brainer: gathering would-be wasted food from school campuses and delivering it to people in the community who need nourishing meals.
Currently at 25 schools around the country, the program gets access to on-campus kitchen space and works to salvage food from cafeterias and then transform it into meals: part of its plan to relieve hunger in the U.S.
Here's how the Campus Kitchens Project describes itself:
We know there are people in every community who need nourishing meals. And, we know that every college campus has unserved food in its dining halls and brilliant students in its classrooms. So we put them all together.
The project is run by students, so they are not only involved in implementing this awesome idea, but also learning all sorts of skills: menu-planning, cooking, management and staff supervising, fundraising, and teaching—specifically, teaching culinary skills to unemployed adults.
Check out their site to learn more or to get involved.
