Be An Elf! -Helping Hungry Kids is dedicated to alleviating hunger and supporting children in need within the Charlotte-Mecklenburg community. By providing healthy meals and essential sanitary kits, our mission is to foster hope and nourishment for all.

Over the past few days, even those living the best of lives have had quite the terrifying experience with Hurricane Helene here in North Carolina. Luckily, my family was safe, and that gives us a responsibility to help those who were not so fortunate, in practically drowned towns such as Asheville, and Chimney Rock. This gives us more people cruelly tossed into the grasps of hunger and misfortune, that desperately require aid, and urgently. I cannot be one to lecture on this topic, given I have never experienced true hunger in my life. Sure, we say we are starving or hungry sometimes, but isn’t that just an excuse for wanting to eat? True hunger is when you cannot eat three full meals a day and when you constantly have a clawing feeling in your stomach - never-ending and unrelenting. 

Hence, I attempt to help.