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Sodexo, one of the nation’s leading food and facilities management services, will attempt to break a Guinness World Record at the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa’s Campus Center today.
Helping Hands Across America (HHAA), a Sodexo-created and sponsored nonprofit organization, will try to break the world record of “largest food drive by a non-charitable organization in a 24-hour period.” All the food donations at Campus Center collected by HHAA will be forwarded on to the Hawai‘i Food Bank.
Gregory Yost, the public relations manager for Sodexo, said the company wanted to make fighting hunger its central focus in community service efforts.
“Helping Hands Across America was created as a new opportunity to fight hunger and its root causes locally in the communities we serve,” Yost said.
Elizabeth Hough, a marketing coordinator for Sodexo, said the organization is looking to collect at least 1,500 pounds at Campus Center.
“Across the country we are aiming to shatter the existing Guinness World Record for Largest Food Drive by a Non-Charitable Organization in a 24-hour period of 388,381 pounds,” Hough said.
Last year Sodexo collected approximately 370,000 pounds of food at multiple campuses in the U.S. Over 1,000 pounds of food were collected at UH alone for the Hawai‘i Food Bank.
Though the event is today only, people are welcome and encouraged to donate canned and nonperishable foods to the University Dining Services’ office at Campus Center or to one of the participating UH Mānoa Registered Independent Organizations before the event.
“It’s really a great feeling to be able to come together with our UH Mānoa community and help people in our communities from going hungry,” Hough said.
Hough also said the Campus Center Board Activities Council will be giving away tacos from the Taco Bell location at Campus Center for anyone who donates at least $2.
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