{"id":32212263936,"date":"2011-12-02T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2011-12-02T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/monmouth-university-students-raise-awareness-about-homelessness\/"},"modified":"2018-02-09T13:59:31","modified_gmt":"2018-02-09T18:59:31","slug":"monmouth-university-students-raise-awareness-about-homelessness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/monmouth-university-students-raise-awareness-about-homelessness\/","title":{"rendered":"MONMOUTH UNIVERSITY STUDENTS RAISE AWARENESS ABOUT HOMELESSNESS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter keepwidth aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/16\/2018\/02\/SleepOutdoorsEvent.jpg\" alt=\"\"  \/><\/p>\n<p>Monmouth University first-year students Chelsea Sebastian and Alexa Ferreira partook in the First Year Service Project, \u201cHouseless Not Hopeless,\u201d in October. The picture depicts a cardboard shelter that Chelsea, Alexa, and their team members built in preparation to sleep outdoors for one night.<\/p>\n<p>During the event, students participated in multiple service-oriented activities to fight poverty in the community and experienced a night of homelessness by sleeping in their cardboard shelters.<\/p>\n<p>The event was run as part of the First-Year Service Project, which organizes activities throughout the semester that give students the opportunity to get involved in ways that benefit the local community.<\/p>\n<p>Some of their contributions included:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none;\">\n<ul>\n<li>Raised over $1,500 to provide local families in need with a Thanksgiving meal;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none;\">\n<ul>\n<li>a donation of over 800 pounds of food to the Food Bank of Monmouth and Ocean Counties;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none;\">\n<ul>\n<li>over $500 donated to various service agencies;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none;\">\n<ul>\n<li>over 2,000 peanut butter and jelly sandwiches were prepared on campus and donated to local soup kitchens;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none;\">\n<ul>\n<li>150 coats were donated to two local soup kitchens;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none;\">\n<ul>\n<li>purchased winter hats and gloves for the needy.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Students Sleep Outdoors for the Night, Donate Food and Clothing to Families in Need<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[221,212],"tags":[],"person":[],"audience":[11],"school":[],"program":[],"class_list":["post-32212263936","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-community-service","category-giving-back","audience-current-student"],"squareimage":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32212263936","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32212263936"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32212263936\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40802228980,"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32212263936\/revisions\/40802228980"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32212263936"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32212263936"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32212263936"},{"taxonomy":"person","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/person?post=32212263936"},{"taxonomy":"audience","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/audience?post=32212263936"},{"taxonomy":"school","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/school?post=32212263936"},{"taxonomy":"program","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/program?post=32212263936"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}