kitchen in rome
>> ellen orabone:when i was 17 i spent one of my summers in nicaragua with an organization that i describeas a peace corps for high schoolers. i was in one of the very poor communitiesin the mountains of northern nicaragua. my host family wasn’t wealthy enough tofeed me sometimes so i went hungry when they went hungry.and dealing with that firsthand and seeing the people that experience that everyday really,kind of, it shook me and inspired me to then come to college and find a way that i couldend that problem. my name is ellen orabone, and i am originallyfrom wilmette, illinois, i am a food science major with a minor in spanish. and my careergoal for the longest time has been to end
hunger.n.c. state university has one of the top five food science departments in the country, andso that was kind of a big pull for me. and then i was offered the park scholarship -- so that was kind of to seal the deal. during my time at nc state, i’ve had manyopportunities to travel abroad and to get different perspectives on different cultures.the summer after my freshman year i went to peru.it was a very kind of unique experience where we had two weeks to really just delve intothe culture of the incans, that very old peru and cusco,and i hiked the inca trail to machu picchu, which was probably one of the most fulfillingmoments of my life.
and then we studied for a month in lima withtwo of the professors from nc state. and then my spring semester sophomore year,i was in costa rica for the whole semester. i was studying environmental ethics and economicsand things like that. and it was just again to get a different perspectiveon a different culture and how things work. last year, i organized an alternative springbreak trip through the csleps program here at state.we went to rome. it was for a hunger-related trip, a hungerissues trip. we met with the u.n, organization, the foodand agriculture organization, and then the world food programme.and we talked with representatives of both
of those organizations about what they aredoing to solve hunger. then we also had for four nights we were ableto go to a local soup kitchen in rome and got to help serving food to the immigrantsin rome and the homeless people in rome. so it’s kind of both aspects of policy andthen actually seeing it in person. it was a great experience.i am actually waiting right now to hear back from a grad program that is a dual degreeprogram between american university in d.c. and the university for peace in costa rica.and it’s a natural resources and sustainable development program.and with it i’d be able to focus on hunger and poverty.from all my studies and research on hunger
and poverty it really seems like communitydevelopment is the answer. and sustainable farming -- how farmers canmake the most out of what they have, and this program i think will really help me out withthat. i’ve kind of realized i’m not going toend hunger, but just to make a difference in a handful of people’s lives: that’swhat i really want to do.
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