Meal Exchange is a national student-founded, youth-driven, registered charity organized to address local hunger by mobilizing the talent and passion of students. Since 1993, our programmes have been run on over 50 campuses across Canada and generated over $1.7 million dollars worth of food or 675,000 meals to address local hunger. How you can get involved:

• PARTICIPATE in a Meal Exchange event at your school
  
• START a Meal Exchange chapter at your school
  
• DONATE to Meal Exchange and our efforts to help students address hunger in communities across Canada
  
• MENTOR a student through our Change-Makers Programme for Alumni and Young Professionals
  
• VOLUNTEER with Meal Exchange national office by offering your professional expertise
  
• CONNECT to Meal Exchange with your high school or youth group

 Meal Exchange offers five main programmes: Skip a Meal, Trick or Eat, Clear the Shelves, Portraits of Hunger, and the Breakfast Program Initiative!. Each is designed to be easy, fun and effective!

For a quick overview of Meal Exchange: AboutMealExchange 108.39 Kb

Meal Exchange is a great organization to work with as it is full of dynamic, driven students and staff trying to raise awareness about hunger in our own communities. The use of students to drive this change is amazing.

I have been a Campus Coordinator for my entire four years at the University of Victoria. Over the years I have been amazed and motivated by the work of UVIC students coming together under Meal Exchange to help solve our hunger problem. The participation by residents and students in Victoria has more than doubled in the four years since UVIC started participating and manages to unite members of our community either through volunteering, donating, or receiving what we have raised.

- Kimberly Moss, University of Victoria
Campus Coordinator, 2005