Challah for Hunger
Kneading dough to save the world
By: Nikki Adelman
Issue date: 3/25/09 Section: On Campus
Challah for Hunger has already completed the daunting task of making and selling 60 challot, but they aren't stopping there. With the helpful addition of a new dough hook, they aim to make up to 300 challot per week.
Challah for Hunger, part of Hillel's social justic and service programming, offers students a chance to make challah from scratch while socializing with friends, then sell the challah and donate the profits to different charities.
Challah for Hunger has chapters at colleges all across the country, including ones at Syracuse University, UCLA, and Vassar College.
The University of Maryland began organizing its group last semester and is hoping to have the program take off this spring.
Each Thursday afternoon, members of the group have a chance to be involved in a session where they make or braid the dough, or bag the challah. Volunteers are encouraged to come to Hillel to help out as often as they can for about an hour per session. On Fridays, Challah for Hunger will set up shop on a table outside Stamp Student Union, and will sell the challot for $5 per loaf. Chocolate chip or cinnamon and sugar challot are $6 per loaf.
Fifty percent of the profits from each sale will be donated to the American Jewish World Services Sudan Relief and Advocacy Fund and 10 percent of the money will go to Hillel.
The goal is to have a different club, fraternity, sorority or student group volunteer to be the guest group of the week. Members from the guest group will assist in the preparation and sales of the challah, and then the guest group's non-profit will be rewarded the remaining 40 percent of the proceeds.
One of the first advocacy groups raising money for their cause is Students for the Special Olympics of Maryland.
Challah for Hunger's main goal is "to spread awareness about genocide, as well as connect with other student groups, and to provide people with yummy challah," said freshman business major Allison Frey. "If you're going to buy challah anyway, why not have the money go to a good cause?"
Challah for Hunger, part of Hillel's social justic and service programming, offers students a chance to make challah from scratch while socializing with friends, then sell the challah and donate the profits to different charities.
Challah for Hunger has chapters at colleges all across the country, including ones at Syracuse University, UCLA, and Vassar College.
The University of Maryland began organizing its group last semester and is hoping to have the program take off this spring.
Each Thursday afternoon, members of the group have a chance to be involved in a session where they make or braid the dough, or bag the challah. Volunteers are encouraged to come to Hillel to help out as often as they can for about an hour per session. On Fridays, Challah for Hunger will set up shop on a table outside Stamp Student Union, and will sell the challot for $5 per loaf. Chocolate chip or cinnamon and sugar challot are $6 per loaf.
Fifty percent of the profits from each sale will be donated to the American Jewish World Services Sudan Relief and Advocacy Fund and 10 percent of the money will go to Hillel.
The goal is to have a different club, fraternity, sorority or student group volunteer to be the guest group of the week. Members from the guest group will assist in the preparation and sales of the challah, and then the guest group's non-profit will be rewarded the remaining 40 percent of the proceeds.
One of the first advocacy groups raising money for their cause is Students for the Special Olympics of Maryland.
Challah for Hunger's main goal is "to spread awareness about genocide, as well as connect with other student groups, and to provide people with yummy challah," said freshman business major Allison Frey. "If you're going to buy challah anyway, why not have the money go to a good cause?"
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Silver Spring Movers
posted 5/22/09 @ 10:38 AM EST
This is a great way to help with a good cause. And as Allison said, if people are buying it anyway they might as well buy one that will help a good cause. (Continued…)
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