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Students Create ‘Food Rescue’ Program to Feed Hungry

Two Providence College juniors have started a program to transport food that normally would be discarded from campus dining halls to people who need it.
 
Since Dave O’Connor ’14 (Franklin Square, N.Y.) and Nick Canessa ’14 (Wall, N.J.) started the Friar Food Rescue this fall, they have delivered more than 1,000 pounds of prepared food from Raymond Dining Hall and Alumni Hall Food Court to Providence’s McAuley House, which serves meals on weekdays and one Saturday a month to its guests, who include the working poor from the surrounding neighborhood.
 
O’Connor said he remembered walking into Raymond Dining Hall near closing time and seeing a lot of food left over. “I knew I couldn’t just bring it all back to my room,” he said. “I’ve been eating leftovers my whole life. I’m aware that it can be saved.” 
 

Read more about the Friar Food Rescue.

 

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