For National Hunger Awareness Week next month, a Hike for Hunger fundraiser to the top of Yosemite National Park has been organized for June 10 by students in California State University, Fresno’s Craig School of Business.
Registration is $50 and is due by Friday, May 14. Participants receive a Hike for Hunger 2010 T-shirt and a gift package and an opportunity to hike 16 miles on one of Yosemite’s landmarks.
Proceeds will benefit the Bulldog Pantry a student-operated food bank that distributes donated food to needy students, families and community residents in the area around campus.
Students are trying to increase awareness about hunger issues around the university and the surrounding community, said team member Jason Van Pelt, a senior from El Dorado Hills majoring in business administration (computer information systems). The team leader is Nick Eldred, a senior from Madera majoring in management-organizational leadership.
The group will meet at the base of Half Dome and make their way up the trail in a display of red and white shirts.
Van Pelt said the event was born when a group of hikers decided to combine their passion for the outdoors with a desire for community involvement.
“We tried to envision what would fire up individuals like ourselves,” Van Pelt said. “What better way to spend the day giving back to your community than using our hiking abilities?”
For more information and to register as a participant, visit http://bulldogpantry.wordpress.com/hike-for-hunger/.
(Copy by University Communications news intern Sadie Thomas)
