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United Way Alternative Spring Break - Baltimore

In collaboration with Participant Media

Twenty students participated in a United Way Alternative Spring Break in Baltimore, MD focused on eliminating hunger and promoting access to healthy foods and healthy lifestyles. The program took place from March 18th until March 22nd.

United Way’s core community strategies to promote healthy eating and physical activity include increasing healthy choices for eating and physical activity in schools and child care settings and increasing availability of healthy choices for eating and physical activity in neighborhoods. ASB volunteers helped move the needle in the right direction through:

  • A screening of the documentary "A Place at the Table"
  • A public policy briefing from United Way Worldwide, FRAC and USDA representatives
  • An intimate meeting with Rep. Jim McGovern, a well known anti-hunger advocate who appeared in the documentary
  • Filming a PSA around hunger
  • Volunteering at local community agencies to provide emergency food to head start families
  • Building a community garden to increase access to healthy food for Baltimore residents

Get Involved

Alternative Spring Break might be over, but there's still a lot of work to be done to ensure we all have access to healthy food. Take action today by:

  • GIVE - Local food banks are always accepting donations of non-perishable food items. Hold a food drive on campus. Send an email to student@unitedway.org and we'll show you how.
  • ADVOCATE - Food banks can't do it alone. Call on Congress to restore Emergency Food and Shelter Funding in fiscal year 2014. Click here to learn more and send a letter to your representatives today!
  • VOLUNTEER - Are you interested in advancing the common good all year long? Start a Student United Way on your campus. Click here to learn how.

Back to unitedway.org/ASB


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