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Volume 78, Issue 12 Web Edition SERVING BREVARD COLLEGE SINCE 1935
Nov. 16, 2012
BC fights to raise awareness
Students fight poverty during Hunger and Homelessness Week
ByAshlee Greene
staff Writer
Too many people in our great nation have been stricken with financial
struggles leaving them homeless or hungry, especially in the financial
crisis that the country has been undergoing. BC Serves has been eager
to show students just how blessed we are to have shelter and food
available throughout this week.
This week was designated to Hunger and Homeless Awareness by
BC Serves, to help promote awareness and show students what it is
like to truly be homeless or hungry.
This past Sunday, November 11,
BC Serves and other students
from the college volunteered
their time to help out at
Bread of Life to serve
the hungry. Many
men, women, and
children who
show up for
meals at places
such as this
are often
homeless
as well.
Bread of
Life is an
Htinger and
Homelessness
Awa,reness Weeek
amazing business devoted to feeding the homeless for free. This is a
wonderful place to volunteer your time, if you ever want to help serve
the community. The workers are always looking for new volunteers, and
the volunteers are welcomed very warmly with a smile and something
to keep them busy.
Wednesday, BC Serves put on a Hunger Banquet that exhibited three
different class meals: low class, middle class, and high class. This event
acts as a visual aid to show what homeless men and women go through
for a meal and the atmosphere that it is eaten in.
Thursday night, many students gathered together with
cardboard boxes and only the clothes they were
allowed to bring on their body, with one jacket
only. This event is normally very successful at
showing the severity of what the homeless go
through in the dead of winter.
Thursday night was one of the coldest
nights of the week, so it was more of a
learning point than it would have been
the previous week. BC Serves loves
visual aids and hands on learning
experiences of what different groups
of people go through on a daily
basis.
Come out and help BC Serves
as they serve the surrounding
community. This group is very
active in volunteer work, helping the community, and
promoting awareness for many groups of people.
As a fundraiser to raise money and awareness for the
victims of Hurricane Sandy, BC Serves also sold t-shirts all
week long for $ 10 each! All proceeds will go to these victims
to help them rebuild or gather necessities that were stripped
from them by the storms.
If you ever want a volunteer experience, find Sarah
Mundenke, President of BC Serves, and she will be sure to
find something that will suit you well.
Brevard can’t wait to see all the BC students become more
active through volunteer work the rest of this school year.
Thank you to all those who participated in one or more of
the events during Hunger and Homeless Awareness week, or
bought one of the t-shirts that were being sold all week.
T-shirts with the design shown at left can be
purchased for $10 from BC Serves members.
The Shirts are orange. Proceeds go to Help
Hurricane Sandy Victims.