Syracuse, N.Y. — Christine Makhuli Cotton, a Syracuse native and Le Moyne College grad, wants to bring her grassroots non-profit movement home to Syracuse.
It all started in 2010 in North Carolina, when her son would come in after school asking for more lunches. She said she was confused. Was her son going hungry?
But he was asking that question for another classmate in need. She said it opened her eyes to the problem of food insecurity. She began researching, contacting social workers at her son’s school district in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. She wanted to do something about it…