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Georgetown University’s Newspaper of Record since 1920

The Hoya

Georgetown University’s Newspaper of Record since 1920

The Hoya

Georgetown SAFE Offers Meal Swipe Donation Drive

Georgetown SAFE Offers Meal Swipe Donation Drive

By Adora Zheng March 31, 2022

Students donated over 500 meal swipes to Georgetown University community members experiencing food insecurity during a meal swipe drive March 25.  Georgetown Students Advancing Food Equity (SAFE)...

Lacking Time, Funds for Meals, Students Face Food Inaccessibility

Lacking Time, Funds for Meals, Students Face Food Inaccessibility

By Sarah Wright April 20, 2018

Two days since his last meal, Deshaun Rice (COL ’19) cannot concentrate. Fatigue seeps in. Words blur together. He sees things from the corners of his eyes — things that are not actually there. Hunger...

Swipe Left On Hunger

By The Editorial Board November 13, 2015

Georgetown students frequently encounter homeless men and women in Washington, D.C., perceiving this vast inequality but not knowing how to help. Swipe Against Hunger, a campus organization that allows...

HOCHBERG: Food for Thought

HOCHBERG: Food for Thought

By Gracie Hochberg October 9, 2015

While many children do not buy their parents’ “there are starving children” argument as a reason to eat that last bite of broccoli, the tired adage makes even less sense in the context of current...

USAID Executive Discusses Extreme Poverty

By Ashley Miller February 3, 2015

Assistant to the Administrator for Policy, Planning and Learning at the U.S. Agency for International Development, Alex Thier, confronted skepticism regarding the possibility of ending extreme poverty...

Surviving the 2am Hunger Struggle

Surviving the 2am Hunger Struggle

By Julia Kieserman and Julia Kieserman September 25, 2013

That time of "day" has finally come: 2am. You’re tired, over-stimulated and probably dehydrated. There is literally only one thing on your mind: food. For those of us still mourning the death of Tuscany’s...

Devastation in the Wake of Progress: The Tragedy of the African Famine

By Michael Appau October 2, 2011

In the past decade African countries have made tremendous progress in a variety of developmental areas. After years of seeming hopeless, they now bound among the nations with the fastest growing economies. ...

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