Hunger Project

The UCLA Hunger Project is a community service organization dedicated to addressing houselessness, housing and food insecurity, and WaSH (water, sanitation, and hygiene) access issues. We host regular volunteer sites throughout the quarter to aid these underserved populations and to provide our members with hands-on volunteer experience. We partner with multiple service organizations in the Greater Los Angeles Area to host our volunteer sites, which include cooking a meal for shelter residents at PATH, recovering leftover food from campus dining halls with Bruin Dine, distributing food & clothes and facilitating social activities at St. James Soup Kitchen, and serving meals to individuals living in their vehicles at Safe Parking LA. In addition to our regular volunteer sites, our growing Advocacy Committee plans quarterly projects/events to raise awareness about systemic houselessness issues and provide support, which involves supply drives, newsletters, collaborations with other UCLA organizations, and outreach to local advocates and politicians. Hunger Project is a diverse and intensive organization with goals to decrease the stigmas that surround houseless, housing insecure, and food insecure individuals.

http://hunger-project-at-ucla.weebly.com/
ucla.hungerproject@gmail.com

Signatories: Cindy TA, Emilee Doering, and Megan HO

Advisor: Pamela R Cysner