Throughout the month of February, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Visitors’ Center will serve as a contribution drop-off site for TABLE, a nonprofit organization that brings college students and community volunteers together to help feed hungry children in the Chapel Hill-Carrboro area.
Throughout the month of February, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Visitors’ Center will serve as a contribution drop-off site for TABLE, a nonprofit organization that brings college students and community volunteers together to help feed hungry children in the Chapel Hill-Carrboro area.
TABLE works in the following way: Participating children receive “loaner” backpacks on Fridays containing a variety of healthy food for the weekend. Receiving food in backpacks – not grocery bags – allows children a sense of privacy. Empty backpacks are returned on Mondays to school or after-school programs for pick-up by TABLE volunteers.
Those who wish to make donations are asked to bring nutritious, nonperishable food items, such as canned vegetables, juice boxes, breakfast food and snack packs, to the UNC Visitors’ Center. The center is located in the west wing of the Morehead Planetarium and Science Center, 250 E. Franklin St. Operating hours are 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. weekdays. The UNC Visitors’Center serves as “the front door” of the University and has information about Carolina, campus, and Chapel Hill, with maps, histories, guides, tours, calendar of events and more.
Visitors’ Center contact: Missy Julian-Fox, (919)962-1630, mjfox@unc.edu.
News Services contact: Susan Houston, (919) 962-8415, susan_houston@unc.edu