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Million Meals: MLK Event Packs the Food

Million Meals: MLK Event Packs the Food

Duke, NCCU students join local high school students, Rotary to help Haiti

Topics for this story: News Releases, Global, Students
January 20, 2010 |
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Durham, NC - Phil Lu (glasses, black shirt) a sophomore at Duke University, Catherine Johnson (blue ball cap), a student at Duke's Fuqua School of Business, Trevor Cesar (grey shirt), a sophomore and member of Duke's baseball team, Lenkeith Warren (white shirt), and Adrian Richardson (red football jersey), both students and members of the African-American Brotherhood at Southern High School, work toward packaging 50,000 meals during the MLK Million Meals Packaging event at Southern High School on Wednesday evening.

Stop Hunger Now, an international hunger relief organization, which coordinated the meal-packaging event, will distribute the meals to people in Haiti.

The next event in Duke's MLK week will be the Student National Medical Association banquet featuring Dr. Alice Coombs. The dinner will be held at 6:30 p.m. Friday, Jan. 22, at the Millennium Hotel in Durham.

Photo by Megan Morr

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