University of Massachusetts Boston Students to Provide Extra Meals This Holiday Season

Student volunteers with the Campus Kitchen at the University of Massachusetts Boston are serving up special meals for their clients as part of The Campus Kitchens Project’s Turkeypalooza 2013. Across the country, students will collect food items, including turkeys, from professors, staff and fellow students, which will be used to provide prepared meals or groceries to the community partners their Campus Kitchen supports.

On November 19 and 20, the Campus Kitchen at the University of Massachusetts Boston (CKUMB) Turkeypalooza volunteers will prepare Thanksgiving-themed grocery bags, some of which include frozen turkeys, for 230 clients and prepare turkey dinner for about 30 University of Massachusetts Boston students facing food insecurity. To make this happen, CKUMB is aiming to solicit 100 turkey donations. For this year’s Turkeypalooza efforts, CKUMB is partnering with the university’s student affairs department, Food for Free, the University of Massachusetts Boston Student Arts and Events Council, Archbishop Williams High School and Boston College High School.

CKUMB is one of 33 Campus Kitchens across the country that together will have a great impact in their communities through Turkeypalooza this holiday season. Last year, Campus Kitchens served nearly 5,000 extra meals through Turkeypalooza programming in addition to the 21,000 meals served on average each month.

To help CKUMB meet their food donation goal, food or monetary donations will be accepted through November 18. To donate, or to help prepare meals for this special event, please contact Elizabeth Moniz, coordinator of CKUMB, at emoniz@campuskitchens.org.