There are a lot of opportunities to help make the world a better place. It’s becoming easier all the time. With so many ways to give, legitimate excuses not to help are hard to find.
You can now donate your extra meals to feed the poor and hungry in Norman.
Just join the OU Eat-ins facebook group, fill out a form and you’re doing a good deed, feeding the hungry and making someone’s day.
So far, 26 meals have been donated. Food and Shelter for Friends will find the hungry people who will eat a proper dinner at Couch Restaurants this Sunday.
But 26 meals is not enough. We’d like to see everyone with an extra meal donate them. If you use all your meals, try saving one.
This is terribly easy, you just give something you aren’t even using. By giving your extra meals you’re not being wasteful, and you’re benefitting the planet in the process.
We are living in the age of $700 billion bailouts and 800,000 homeless children in this country. Giving a little to the poor is a good way to help put our values in the right place.
If the week ends and a meal is wasted, by omission, you are stealing food from the hungry. Make that little effort to fill out the form and feed Norman’s hungriest — those in need.
The easier it is to donate to the poor the more democratic it becomes. It becomes less about who has extra to give to the poor and more about who has a heart and compassion. Extra meal points are common to most students with meal plans.
There are fewer and fewer excuses not to donate. It’s easier than it used to be; you just have to do it. So do it.
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William 2 years, 3 months ago
Way to get the word out. Super.
acsooner 2 years, 3 months ago
OU Food Services should make this service happen without having to sign up. That way, at the end of the week, if a student with a meal plan has any left over meals, they are automatically donated to charity.
ston9794 2 years, 3 months ago
The man has a point, but I have a hard time accepting it because he's such a two-face...
ston9794 2 years, 3 months ago
@acsooner: That will probably never happen. H&F keeps the money not spent from un-used exchanges and points, and giving them to charity (as altruistic as it is) is literally the equivalent of throwing money away. H&F is a business, and part of being a business entails profiting from your service.
saxman 2 years, 3 months ago
...Coaches? Come on editor.