Youth Program
NiHao student ambassadors organize monthly packing events, food drives, fundraising campaigns and advocacy trips — and build real leadership experience along the way.
Monthly
Packing events
Drives
School food drives
Ambassadors
Student leaders
Hours
Verified service hours
8/31/2025
Our NiHao intern served at the UTD Gongfu Panda Camp, where students from across DFW explored Chinese language and traditions through lessons, arts and crafts, calligraphy and gongfu classes.
7/26/2025
At NiHao's July Pack & Box session volunteers packed 686 boxes, 14 pallets and 20,520 pounds of food — 17,150 meals for our North Texas neighbors.
5/31/2025
At our monthly packing event volunteers packed 42,000 lbs of meal boxes for the North Texas Food Bank to support families experiencing food insecurity.
4/18/2025
On April 2, 2025 ambassadors joined NTFB Advocacy Day in Austin, visiting over ten legislative offices to push for streamlining SNAP and increasing funding for the Food is Medicine program.
The Ambassador level asks students for 900 meals, $300, or 100 volunteer hours over three years. Start with the pledge form, then join a packing shift.