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USC students help provide food for needy
There’ll be food on the table this winter for many needy Sunshine Coast residents following a concerted effort by a team of University of the Sunshine Coast students to “can hunger”.
USC’s Students In Free Enterprise (SIFE) team collected hundreds of cans of food by doorknocking around Landsborough, Beerwah and Sippy Downs in April and May for the Let’s Can Hunger Challenge, sponsored by Campbells Soup.
The six-member student team last week presented the non-perishable food to local emergency relief programs across the Coast, including the Glasshouse Mountains Neighbourhood Centre and the University’s emergency food cupboard.
SIFE is a global, non-profit organisation that works in business and higher education circles to develop social responsibility in leaders of the future.
USC SIFE president Amy Jones, 21, said the collection and distribution of the canned food was a key activity for the team during the past six months.
Other activities included starting a community garden in a local neighbourhood, establishing a breakfast club for needy primary and high school children at Beerwah, holding fundraisers at shopping centres and staging two world record attempts at creating the longest can-phone network.
Amy said SIFE provided a fantastic opportunity for students to put into practice some elements of their degrees while networking with business, community and campus leaders.
She said USC SIFE team members will travel to Melbourne next month to make a presentation about their efforts at a national SIFE event.
— Julie Gatehouse