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Campus Kitchen to open at Georgia Tech

On Friday, April 18, the Georgia Institute of Technology will join The Campus Kitchens Project network and launch the Campus Kitchen at Georgia Tech, a student-run organization that will provide free, healthy meals to Atlanta residents by using donated food that would otherwise go to waste. With the program’s official status, Georgia Tech will be one of 35 schools that are part of the national network.

“We are very excited to bring The Campus Kitchens Project to Georgia Tech and believe that the organization will fulfill our motto of ‘progress and service’ by allowing our students to serve free meals to our community throughout the academic year,” said Grant Grimes, student promotions coordinator at Georgia Tech Dining and Georgia Tech student.

At each Campus Kitchen nationwide, students lead efforts to combat food waste and hunger by collecting surplus food from dining halls, community gardens, restaurants and grocery stores and transforming it into healthy meals. The Campus Kitchen at Georgia Tech, sponsored by the Honor’s Program and Georgia Tech Dining, is the second Campus Kitchen in Georgia, joining the Campus Kitchen at the University of Georgia. Volunteers with the Campus Kitchen at Georgia Tech will serve Atlanta Mission and Atlanta’s Table, a project of the Atlanta Community Food Bank.

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Georgia Tech is one of seven universities that participated in the first-ever Campus Kitchen launch grant video competition sponsored by Sodexo Foundation in late January. A diverse group of campus representatives created a video explaining why their community would benefit from a Campus Kitchen and rallied thousands of supporters to vote for their video. By the end of the competition, Georgia Tech received more than 5,000 votes and won a $5,000 grant to bring The Campus Kitchens Project to campus.

The Campus Kitchen at Georgia Tech will conduct cooking shifts in Georgia Tech’s Brittain Dining Hall and will recover food from all four on-campus dining halls with support from Sodexo-run Georgia Tech Dining.

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In the last academic year, 33 Campus Kitchens across the country rescued more than 404,000 pounds of food and served 279,680 meals to 9,365 clients.

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