If you are interested in hunger and housing issues in the greater Middletown community, apply to serve as coordinator for the following groups! Both positions are partially paid and are official Office of Community Service staff positions. Bread Salvage: Bread Salvage is a program that salvages bread from the Cromwell Freihofer’s outlet and delivers it to students at…
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Volunteer Opportunity: Point-in-Time Count of Connecticut’s Homeless Population
A great one-time volunteer opportunity from the Connecticut Coalition to End Homelessness: Every January, the CT Coalition to End Homelessness (CCEH) coordinates the Point in-Time Count of the state’s homeless population. The count provides valuable information on the location and needs of those individuals in our community who experience street homelessness, and is used to…
Hunger Banquet (4/23)
How many times have you heard the phrase “I’m starving!” before going to eat dinner at Usdan? Is that what hunger really looks like? What about on a global scale? Attend the Hunger Banquet–an interactive simulation of global inequality related to food, hunger, and income. Upon entering the event, each attendee is assigned an income bracket—low, middle, or…
Foodshare Walk Against Hunger (5/4)
Consider participating in the Foodshare Walk Against Hunger with other Wesleyan folks and Middletown residents. This walk will directly benefit St. Vincent De Paul’s soup kitchen and the Amazing Grace Food Pantry in Middletown as they’ll be able to keep 80% of the profits earned. You can join the already established Wesleyan group, donate to a team…
Locking Down Lockers with Middletown Potluck
The Middletown Potluck student group is hosting an Indiegogo campaign to provide lockers for the homeless community in Middletown. From the campaign page: We are Middletown Potluck, a group dedicated to building a community between Middletown residents and Wesleyan students. At a recent potluck we all discussed serious problems that face the homeless community and…
Volunteer Opportunity: Cardboard City Sleep Out
From Celia Caffery, an AmeriCorps VISTA Fellow with Opening Doors-Greater Hartford: “There wil be an awareness raising and advocacy training event that might be of interest to Wesleyan students interested in human rights and homelessness. Journey Home (a nonprofit working to end homelessness in the Greater Hartford region) is putting on a Cardboard City Sleep…