by Terry Wade
More than 40 of our students participated in a “Rise Against Hunger” event at West Virginia University in Morgantown — the third in a series hosted this year by Aramco Services Company. The students packaged dried food items for more than 20,000 meals for schools, orphanages, and others in need.
More than 100 students sponsored by Aramco have ventured outside the walls of classrooms this year to work in U.S. communities, volunteering at charities that work to alleviate hunger domestically and overseas by packing and delivering food for people who need it.
The service work that occurred across the country is part of Aramco’s broader community engagement program that focuses on supporting the communities where our personnel work and live.
Citizenship in Action
Nearly 20 Aramco students from Arizona State University spent the first day of March at St. Mary’s Food Bank in Phoenix sorting and inspecting packaged foods and serving hot meals to 100 families. The food bank serves around 1,000 families daily, six days a week throughout Phoenix and delivers food across Arizona.
On April 6, 24 Aramco students from the University of California, Los Angeles and the University of Southern California spent the day sorting, inspecting and packaging donated items at the Los Angeles Food Bank, which collects food and resources from across Southern California and serves more than 300,000 people on a monthly basis.
“I am glad to have been part of making this happen. This made me realize how small actions can be very meaningful for other people,” said Ghadeer Al Helal, one of the student volunteers.
In Denver, Colorado, on March 22, 30 Aramco students sorted and organized donated new, and gently used goods, including coats, undergarments, socks, shoes, toiletries, and other essentials for children and families most in need at a building of A Precious Child — a local charity group.
Nearly 20 Aramco students from Arizona State University spent the first day of March at St. Mary’s Food Bank in Phoenix sorting and inspecting packaged foods and serving hot meals to 100 families. The food bank serves around 1,000 families daily, six days a week throughout Phoenix and delivers food across Arizona.
“This really strengthens my role in society and Aramco’s role in society,” said Abdullah Alghambi, another student.
‘Rise Against Hunger’
Also in March, more than 40 of our students participated in a “Rise Against Hunger” event at West Virginia University in Morgantown — the third in a series hosted this year by Aramco Services Company. The students packaged dried food items for more than 20,000 meals for schools, orphanages, and others in need. The student volunteers were highlighted in a segment broadcast in West Virginia by a local TV news station, which reported on Aramco’s collaboration with Rise Against Hunger — an international nonprofit trying to help to eradicate world hunger by the year 2030 — in line with goals set forth by the United Nations.
“Aramco is helping us immensely,” said Andrew Moser, community engagement manager for Rise Against Hunger in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.