Hunger and Homelessness Week
Service Saturday
Participate in a volunteer project Saturday morning with your friends!
Blanket Making in the Lair
Meet in the Lair to make blankets to be donated to local homeless shelters.
Change for Change
Members of the McKendree Community Action Team will be hitting the dorms to collect change to donate to charity at 9pm!
Sleep-out
During the Sleep-out, students sleep right in the McKendree Quad from 8:30 p.m. to 7:30 am! Activities include building a cardboard house, a trivia game, learning survival tricks and more.
Empty Bowls Brown Bag
Come enjoy some cheesy potato soup and buy some handmade ceramic bowls! Each brown bag features a local service organization, with soup for $5.00 and ceramic bowls made by Dr. Lyn Huxford, Dr. Brenda Boudreau, and Dr. Melissa Barfield-Works.
Hunger Banquet
Come learn about the global impact of income inequality.
Legislative Action Day in PAC
Students have the opportunity to participate in a letter-writing campaign to our Illinois and United States governments to help stop hunger and homelessness. Letters and petitions will be already typed up that students can simply sign in Piper from 11:30 to 1:00 P.M.
Service Saturday II
Participate in a volunteer project Saturday morning with your friends!
More "food" for thought
Hunger is the physical sensation resulting from not having enough food to eat. More than 8.3 million Americans are hungry, including one in every three children. More than 3.5 million Americans experience homelessness each year, thirty-five percent of which are families with children and twenty-five percent of which are people under the age of 18.
Related Links
Hunger Scholarship
http://www.sodexofoundation.org/
Bread for the World website
Chicago Coalition for the Homeless
The Campus Kitchens Project website
http://www.campuskitchens.org/
End Hunger Network website
National Student Campaign Against Hunger and Homelessness Website
http://www.studentsagainsthunger.org/
Oxfam America website
Peter and Paul Community Services
