帮助人们不挨饿
“We can help improve the health and well being of the people in the community.”
艾琳·凯利, Internship Program Director for UC's Nutrition Program discusses Utica College joining the Food Recovery Network and how the institution is doing its part to combat hunger.
Q: 告诉我们一些你自己的情况.
A: 我是注册营养师. I went back to school when I was almost 40 for a master’s in nutrition science, 并于2015年成为注册营养师. I’ve been at Utica for about a year and a half full time. 在那之前一年,我还兼职教书. My current position is internship program director for the nutrition program.
Q: 你为什么选择营养学?
A: I had a career teaching exercise science courses at a few different schools. As I was teaching, I found myself incorporating nutrition more and more, doing my own reading
和研究. 那是一场完美风暴. 当我回到学校, 我的工作不稳定, and the timing seemed right to become a dietitian. I knew I would be done by the time my son hit middle school, and this was something I took a personal interest in as an athlete and someone interested in health and wellness.
Q: Can you explain what exactly the Food Recovery Network is?
A: It is a national organization that essentially saves food that would have been thrown away and gives it to hunger relief organizations. 这主要发生在大学校园里, and it is really meant to be a mostly student-run organization, as it was students at the University of Maryland who founded it in 2011.
Q: 为什么UC现在成为会员很重要?
A: 它的重要性有几个不同的原因. 饥饿是一个无处不在的问题, and one of my core beliefs is that as nutrition professionals, it is part of our job to make sure that everyone has access to enough healthy food regardless of who they are or how much money they have. Another issue is that one third of the food produced every year in this country is wasted, and a lot of it is perfectly good food that could go to feed people. The nutrition students decided that this was something important for us all to be involved in. 他们很兴奋,说让我们开始吧.
Q: How will UC make a difference in the Utica community by being a member?
A: At the very heart of it, we can help people not to go hungry. Since November, we have donated about 500 pounds of food. We can help improve the health and well being of the people in the community. Right now we have a group of five to six core nutrition students. 我们一直在寻找志愿者, the time commitment is pretty small and people can chose to come as often or as infrequently as they want. 如果他们感兴趣,可以给我发电子邮件, all they have to do is a brief food safety training that I will provide.
Q: 成为会员的过程是怎样的? 它涉及到什么?
A: 第一个, we had to form a student leadership group since they are the ones who will take charge at each of the recoveries. 我们得跟达米安·勃勒特做个安排, 餐饮服务总经理, and he was completely on board and happy to work with us. 我们还必须找到我们的合作机构, and we had to sign agreements with them that they were willing to take our food. The student advisory group had to do a food safety training that was given by the Food Recovery Network to make sure our collection procedures were safe. Finally, we had to do two trial-run recoveries to make sure we could go through the process. 所以在一月份,我们成为了一个正式的分会. Recovery runs happen twice a week on Wednesdays and Fridays. On Wednesdays, food is donated to the Rescue Mission and on Fridays, it is donated
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Q: 你在空闲时间都做些什么?
A: I don’t have a lot, but for most of it, I like to read, knit, hang out with my family and my dogs. I spend a lot of time attending my son’s basketball and baseball games throughout the year.
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