From NYU Athletics
On Thursday, November 20, the New York University women's
volleyball team took part in the second annual City Harvest 24-Hour
Repackathon to assist with food redistribution in time for
Thanksgiving weekend.
City Harvest is a food rescue program in New York City that helps
feed more than 1.4 million New Yorkers facing hunger each year by
rescuing excess food from restaurants, grocers, manufacturers, and
farms, and giving it out to more than 500 community,programs in the
city.
Women's volleyball squad members were among 400 individual and
corporate volunteers who attended the second annual City Harvest
24-Hour Repackathon and helped repack more than 231,000 pounds of
bulk food donations into family-sized packages. These packages were
ultimately distributed to the organization's network of food
pantries and soup kitchens across all five boroughs to help feed
hungry New Yorkers over the Thanksgiving holidays.
"The event was a blast," said senior Vera Shulgina, who serves as a President of the Student Athlete Advisory Committee (SAAC). "It was amazing to see our individual bagging efforts turn into thousands of pounds of repackaged food for distribution."