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World Hunger Awareness

Thank you to BMW of Stratham for bringing statistics about World Hunger to our attention. Please view the graphic below.  Read More

Tampa Food Truck Rally Will Feed Many!

The annual Food Truck Rally in Hyde Park benefits End 68’s mission of feeding hungry school kids in Tampa. Enjoy brunch or lunch from the yummy offerings of multiple gourmet food trucks — and support a good cause. This family-friendly event will feature a bouncy house and carnival for the kiddos. For adult fun, bid...  Read More

Conval NH Chapter Nearing Its First Anniversary

In recognition of the ConVal NH chapter approaching its one year anniversary, the New Hampshire Union Leader featured their volunteers in a recent article, Volunteers fill the weekend meal gap for ConVal students.  Linda Caracappa and Carol Cleary began the ConVal chapter of End 68 Hours of Hunger on November 4th, 2016. Since then, many...  Read More

Chalmers Reverse Trick-or-Treat Benefits Conway End 68

It’s Trick-or-Treating in reverse! Join Chalmers Insurance Group in their efforts to collect 1,000 non-perishable food items by October 31st. All donations will benefit End 68 Hours of Hunger in Conway, NH. You can drop off donations at 3277 White Mountain Highway, North Conway, NH. Thank you Chalmers Insurance Group!!  Read More

Volunteers to Host Free Community Supper

Know someone or a family that could really use a great meal? The volunteers of End 68 Hours of Hunger Sacopee Valley are putting on a FREE community supper. Saturday, October 21, 2017 from 4:00 – 6:30 p.m. at the Greenleaf Masonic Lodge located on Route 25 in Cornish, ME (right across from Rite Aid.)...  Read More

Got Ice Cream?

Got Ice Cream? The Pink House in Milton, NH will be donating 20% of their sales to the Milton End 68 Hours of Hunger Program 12pm to 8pm on 9/30 and 10/1. We are currently feeding 14 students at MES and 23 at Nute. We are working on refilling our shelves. Please come out and buy...  Read More

Eliot 5k Turns 25

On Saturday, September 30 at 8:30 am, the Eliot 5k Road Race in Eliot, ME will be celebrating it’s 25 year anniversary. Since all costs have been nearly all covered by area business sponsors, every $25 registration fee will go directly to the Eliot/South Berwick End 68 Hours of Hunger program. That’s like donating 2 bags...  Read More

One of Maine’s 20 Outstanding Women

Congratulations to Dina Call for being chosen as one of Maine’s 20 ‘OUTSTANDING WOMAN’ 2017 for her community contributions and the End 68 Hours of Hunger Local program. Dina was interviewed on the Coast93.1 Radio show “My sister Renee Roy and I started our non-profit chapter of End 68 Hours of Hunger 3 years ago. Our Goal...  Read More

Fighting child hunger? For one veteran, it’s in the bag.

Claire Bloom was meeting with her book club in 2010 when a fellow member, a teacher, mentioned that some of her students had nothing to eat between lunch on Friday and breakfast at school on Monday. “I was absolutely stunned and appalled,” Bloom says of learning that kids were going hungry in her seemingly affluent...  Read More

Lace Up Those Running Shoes for Eliot Festival Day!

On September 30th, the Eliot Festival Day 25th Anniversary 5k Road Race needs your help to be an awesome, fun, family event and to succeed in it’s mission to help alleviate the 68 hours of hunger that some children experience between schools free lunch on Fridays and schools free breakfast on Mondays. This past summer, we fed 22 Eliot and South...  Read More
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