Community Services is a food and nutrition program, located at Boston, that serves families affected with chronic illness in about three hundred miles radius. Cooking up to 2600 meals per day, these are rich in nutrition and fit into the food restrictions of each member that they serve. High attention is provided to make sure that the food is completely hygienic and does not have hair or any other impurities. The food is cooked, the packages are assembled and then labelled before sending them out to the families. Ehrika Tourigny, the associate manager of human resources at Northeastern University, is one of them twenty university staff members who had taken the initiative to be a part of this noble service on that day.
Tourigny talks about how she was glad to see that Northeastern University supported such community activities. The staff blend in easily with the rest of the members for cooking healthy and lip-smacking food for the chronically ill. Elham Glabour, a principal research scientist at the Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology at the university, chops onions like an expert, just the way she was taught during her training for the volunteering. She says it is kind of like the lab work that she does because she is doing it out of love.
The volunteering opportunity at Community Services is only one step at the constant efforts by Northeastern University’s Facilities department to collaborate with other university offices on volunteering projects in Boston. It helps bring the members of NU closer to the lives of people who are not as privileged as themselves.
N Malavika Mohan
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