Author Archives: juliawade92

With a week left, I shouldn’t be writing about the end of summer quite yet, but the truth is, I smell fall. Friday Aug. 1 was the last day for most of our summer lunch sites, and that was a … Continue reading →

The Tri-Village Lions Club approached Children’s Hunger Alliance in June about having a book give-away called “Christmas in July” for children at our sites. As most of our sites are in areas with low parent participation, I didn’t know how … Continue reading →

Step 1. Secure a nutritious and delicious lunch for the kiddos, as well as dozens of volunteers and community partners to make the day run smoothly and enjoyable. Ronald McDonald is a popular invitee to have on the guest list. … Continue reading →

To be honest, I usually zone out when people start talking. It’s not on purpose, but for some reason if my subconscious senses a lecture coming on, it comes out to play and my conscious-conscious goes in to take a … Continue reading →

My first and least favorite job was a position as a sales associate in a golf clothing store. I was a great employee; I was awarded employee of the month four times in the one year I worked there. But … Continue reading →

The Columbus Museum of Art is just one of the many awesome partnerships Children’ Hunger Alliance has secured to appear at different sites throughout the summer. CMA’s first summer site visit was last Thursday, June 26, to Trevitt Elementary School. … Continue reading →

My NPO feeds hungry kids, but what these children are really starved for is affection. As I guide a new volunteer to the playground of one of our summer feeding sites, a mass of young girls with heads covered in … Continue reading →

Its the end of my second week as a full-time Fellow, and as cliche as it sounds, I don’t know where the time went! My main task at Children’s Hunger Alliance is to assign volunteers to appropriate sites, which was … Continue reading →

The question. THE question. The question. When you’re thirty it might be a marriage proposal, but when you’re eighteen, just having caught your thrown graduation cap, its, “What the hell am I going to do with my life?!” It’s a … Continue reading →