Harvard Global Hunger Initiative

Our Involvements:

We have been focusing our efforts on three main pillars: advocacy, action, and education. Our organization is structured into five committees. As an organization, the Harvard College Global Hunger Initiative focuses on five key issues: technology and innovations to alleviate the global food crisis, public and economic policy surrounding food aid programs, environmental climate change and its disproportionate effects on the poor, education and the empowerment of women, and access to clean and safe drinking water, which is often coupled with the scarcity of food.
Please find below a short description of the committees! For more info, or to join a committee, please email us at globalhungerinitiative@gmail.com

Local Action Committee

The local action committee fosters GHI mission and ideals basing on the philosophy of "thinking globally, acting locally." This committee focuses on helping to address local food insecurities and homelessness in the greater Boston area.
Here are ways you can get involved with the GHI Local Action Initiative:

Volunteer with us at Rosie’s Place, a local Boston food shelter for women and children.
Volunteer with the Greater Boston Food Bank with the Harvard Community as a GHI group.
Volunteer with us during our weekly shift at the Harvard College Homeless Shelter.
Join us during the Walk for Hunger: we walk as a group each year to support Project Bread.

Events Planning Committee

The events planning committee works on organizing campus-wide events, which are open to all members of the Harvard Community, as well as members in Cambridge and Boston. This committee hosts several events on campus each semester on issues related to food policy, agricultural development, poverty relief, malnutrition, and sustainable development.
Please see the archive for past events that GHI has organized. Also, join our listserv to receive info on upcoming events!

Technology and Innovation Committee

The Technology and Innovation Committee has a vision of brainstorming and crafting new innovative solutions to fight poverty and hunger. We believe that current solutions to alleviating the global food crisis have shown to be frail in recent years. We need creativity, novel thinking, and the bridging of disciplines to create sustainable models for alleviating hunger.
In the past, we worked on AgroText, a model for a new SMS service for agricultural communities in Kenya, and was excited to win the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) 2.0 Development Challenge as a Top 15 Finalist. We made the complete AgroText model available on the web for others to view and utilize.
This committee works toward new innovative models for poverty reduction. This committee also provides technical assistance for the other committees, as well as the upkeep of the website.

Outreach Committee

GHI is a part of four networks: (i) World Food Programme Universities Fighting World Hunger (UFWH), (ii) Millennium Campus Network, (iii) CARE Action Network, and (iv) Philips Brooks House Assocation Public Service Network.
The outreach committee corresponds with these networks. Many of the efforts of the Outreach Committee have been in advocacy through these four networks.

Finance and Fundraising Committee

The Finance and Fundraising Committee is responsible for both fundraising and finance of our operational costs.
Last year, this committee was also integral in organizing a large fundraising event, where we solicited donations from all Harvard Square restaurants, and with these food donations, held a lovely fundraising dinner – with 5 keynote speakers and wonderful performances by a violinist and the Radcliffe Pitches, a female acapella group on campus. 100% of the ticket sales were donated to three causes around the world – a malnutrition program in South Sudan, a community development program in Nicaragua, and the Women’s Lunch Place in Boston.

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