SAN DIEGO (Press Release) – The Hand Up Teen Leadership Program at Jewish Family Service of San Diego has been awarded a Sodexo Foundation Youth Grant through YSA (Youth Service America). The grant will support the Hand Up Teen Leadership Program in leading a community service project that addresses the issue of childhood hunger.
In a related development, the Hand Up Teen Leadership Program and Qualcomm will host a teen film screening of the major motion picture, A Place at the Table. This film examines the issue of hunger in America through the lens of three people struggling with food insecurity The Screening will take place on Wednesday, April 9th at 6:00 PM at the Q Theater at Qualcomm, 6455 Lusk Boulevard, San Diego, CA 92121. The audience will consist of high school teens from all over San Diego County. The purpose of the screening is to give teen leaders a sense of food insecurity and hunger in their community, and to inspire them to take a stand and begin actively volunteering and running food drives with the Hand Up Youth Food Pantry.
One-hundred grants of up to $500 were awarded to youth-led projects that aim to reduce childhood hunger in local communities throughout America. Grantees educate and mobilize their peers around the issue, creating solutions to end childhood hunger. Sodexo Foundation Youth Grants empower young people as problem-solvers working to improve the well-being and quality of life for their generation.
The Hand Up Teen Leadership Program joins millions of other young people around the world to celebrate Global Youth Service Day, April 11 to 13, 2014. Now in its 27th year, Global Youth Service Day recognizes the positive impact that young people have on their communities 365 days a year. As the largest service event in the world, Global Youth Service Day is celebrated in more than 135 countries and all 50 states.
“As communities are challenged by the reduction in public resources, it makes our vision of a hunger-free America more difficult to attain,” said Robert A. Stern, chair, Sodexo Foundation. “Each Sodexo Foundation Youth Grantee is doing their part to tackle an issue that directly affects one in five of their peers. It will be through their actions and ingenuity that we will one day see an end to childhood hunger in America.”
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Preceding provided by Jewish Family Service of San Diego.