Tag Archive for hunger & homelessness

Spring 2015 Hunger Banquet

What is the hungriest you’ve ever been? How does your hunger look on the global scale? Join Wesleyan’s Hunger & Homelessness group on Wednesday, April 22 for the annual Hunger Banquet, an interactive simulation of global inequality related to food, hunger, and income. Attendees will share a meal and participate in a discussion about their perceptions and reactions to the…

Home At Last? Film Screening, Personal Accounts, and Discussion

Did you know that, according to the American Institutes for Research, children make up 40% of the homeless population in the United States? Learn more about the realities of homelessness in the local Middletown community through a screening of the short PBS documentary Home at Last? and recollections from members of L.E.A.D — a group…