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Fighting hunger one Campus Kitchen at a time
Caitlin O’Donnell
News Editor
With three full-service dining halls as well as
numerous other food locations, Elon University has
the most dining facilities per student in all of the
ARAMARK franchises. With so much food available
on campus, a new program introduced this semester
and fully operational in the spring will work to put the
excess food to good use.
“We throw away a lot more food than we should,"
said junior Amber Mathis. “I don’t think it's not
because we’re not thinking about it.”
The Campus Kitchens Project is a national
organization that targets hunger relief, which
will begin operating in Colonnades Dining Hall in
February 2011 through the work of Elon’s campus and
community.
“We’re training the next generation of leaders to
implement innovative new models to combat hunger,
and we’re bringing these models to communities
around the nation,” its website said.
Planning and approval process
While working as a summer associate for the
Kernodle Center for Service Learning and Community
Engagement, Mathis began to research the national
Campus Kitchens Project.
According to Christina Strader, one of the founders
of Campus Kitchen at Elon, Mathis found the program
fit the personality of Elon.
“From there, our professional staff in the Kernodle
Center brought the idea to the administration, who
loved it." Strader said. “Lorrie Lambert had a similar
idea, just didn’t know what it would be. She was very
much behind this idea of the Campus Kitchen and it
was driven through administration and ARAMARK
very quickly.”
At this point, a leadership team has been hired and
will begin the process of training and certification,
as well as carrying out trial runs. An executive board
will be hired in the spring semester, with the grand
opening of the program in February of next year.
Holly Anderson, program coordinator for the
Campus Kitchen at Elon, said while the trial runs
will not be open to community volunteers, full shifts
will still be run and food will be delivered to Allied
Churches. ,
“We’re just using it as an opportunity to not only
perfect our time in the kitchen, but come together as
a team,” she said.
Both the trial and official runs will be divided into
two shifts - cooking, which will take place Tuesday
nights, and delivery on Wednesday mornings.
Strader said students involved in cooking shifts
will collect the food not served at Colonnades dining
hall and recreate well-balanced meals.
“A lot of creativity goes into this because you
don’t know what you’re getting,” she said. “You
must be comfortable with ambiguity. But it s a fun
environment.”
Partnership with Allied Churches
The delivery shift will be responsible for packaging
the food for Allied Churches and delivering it around
lunch time for 100 to 200 people, she said.
According to Eric Zelenkofske, the LINCS, or
Leader in Collaborative Service through the Kernodle
Center, to Allied Churches, the food prepared and
packaged by volunteers for the Elon Campus Kitchen
will be donated to the Good Shepard Kitchen at Allied
Churches, which currently serves between 120 and
180 meals a day.
“The kitchen is already incredibly effective at
serving meals to members of the community, he
said. “The (Elon) Campus Kitchen program will only
support Allied Churches with more food, a larger
number of volunteers and an increased awareness of
hunger issues in Burlington.”
As the LINCS, Zelenkofske said that he is a link
between the school and the shelter which, according to
the website, is “a sanctuary for those seeking spiritual
renewal and a catalyst for personal responsibility and
transformation.”
“I am always impressed with how the kitchen staff
manage the food they are given,” he said. “It’s a main
reason why I know the Campus Kitchen program (at
Elon) will be a success.”
Coordinating the program
Currently, only the leadership team will work the
shifts. After the grand opening, students, faculty and
community members will have the chance to sign up.
“I’ve heard it referred to as non-denominational
volunteering because you don’t necessarily have to
have an affiliation with a Greek house, church group
or student group,” Anderson said. “You can come once
or as often as you’d like. It’s very all-encompassing.”
While not all volunteers will need to be certified,
Anderson said at least two leaders in the kitchen will
need to be certified through Servsafe, a food manager
certification for restaurants and food establishments.
“It’s teaching them how to handle food, what to be
careful about, what to look for with food-borne illness
and how to handle it and the importance of personal
hygiene,” she said.
Anderson said Campus Kitchen will only operate
in Colonnades dining hall and will keep the focus
there for now.
“It’s a beautiful space, and it’s more than enough
space than we need,” she said. “We have all of our food
storage over there.”
With the addition of the executive board next
semester, Mathis said there will be a director
for Campus Kitchen at Elon who will coordinate
volunteers, organize schedules and serve as a second-
in-command beside Anderson. There will also be
a delivery shift coordinator and director of public
relations and marketing.
“Eventually, we might not be starting it this year, but
we would like to do nutrition education programming
outreach where we talk to community members and
kids about food-related issues,” she said.
Significance for Elon
Mathis and Strader agreed that the opportunities
for volunteering and leadership as well as the
sustainability initiatives provided through Campus
Kitchen fit into Elon’s mission.
“Elon has a large focus on service-driven
opportunities and, specifically, service-learning
opportunities," Strader said. “I feel that for Elon, this
is a chance to interact with peers and institutions in
the community."
According to Zelenkofske, students have been very
receptive to the idea of a Campus Kitchen at Elon.
“Campus Kitchen is a great way of integrating an
enthusiastic student body, Elon’s theme of engajei
learning and Allied Churches’ mission of helping
members of the local Burlington community.”
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Avery Lucas
Reporter
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