Contact: Sharon Fisher
December 11th, 2009

MECC SIFE members reaching out to the community

The SIFE members at Mountain Empire Community College delivered 500 canned food items to the Big Stone Gap Food Bank prior to Thanksgiving and are continuing to collect canned food items to deliver in December to another local food bank.

SIFE members also donated over 100 toys to the local Toys for Tots organization last week; the toys were collected from their successful sponsorship of a benefit concert last month featuring recording artist Melvin Dillon.

The Let’s Can Hunger Challenge,sponsoredby Campbell Soup Company, is a competition that provides SIFE teams with the opportunity to participate in a series of objectives including Urgent Hunger Relief, Lasting Hunger Relief and Hunger Awareness. 

These objectives specifically include: A team’s ability to organize and implement successful food drives in their local community;  demonstrating that the SIFE team assisted individuals and families in breaking the cycle of hunger; and developing and implementing an integrated marketing campaign to raise awareness about the issue of hunger in a team’s community.

SIFE is an international organization that brings students, professors and industry leaders together to develop community projects that will help improve the quality of live for individuals.    

MECC’s newest student organization, SIFE, collected over 100 toys to donate to Toys for Tots.  Sitting (l to r) are Pamela McCarty, Sabrina Graham, Susan Thomas (Keokee), Linda McQueen (Big Stone Gap), Terri Lane, and Amanda Vaughn (Dryden). Standing (l to r) are Jonathan Thomas (Keokee), Aaron Hass (Rye Cove), Matthew Christian (Coeburn), and Teresa Young.

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