The National Student Campaign Against Hunger and Homelessness. A campus movement to educate, train, and mobilize students to end poverty.
Boston, MA
Joined August 2009
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It's Hunger and Homelessness Awareness Week! Volunteer. Donate. Educate. Take action this week to help end hunger and homelessness. Find an event at hhweek.org #hhweek #hhweek2021
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Research is growing saying that college students are routinely going hungry, but it is not consistent in describing how many students face this problem. Now lawmakers are trying to change that. #CampusHunger #StudentHunger #RealCollege theatlantic.com/education/ar…
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“For many of our students, the question is, do I buy a textbook or food?” #campushunger #realcollege #highered
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According to several recent surveys, about 400,000 California community college students have experienced homelessness within the last year. Now, these students are asking their communities to do more. #HigherEd #RealCollege #Homelessness
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“While hundreds of universities have opened food pantries since 2009, #foodinsecurity made it into the national conversation much more recently.” #studenthunger #RealCollege
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"Colleges & universities around Ohio are fighting #studenthunger with food drives, community gardens, & fundraisers. Some recover unused food from cafeterias & private events to be donated elsewhere or offer end of semester meal plan swaps....” publicnewsservice.org/2019-0…
“..Students have to prioritize their available budget for rent, tuition and utilities, while using the remaining insufficient balance for food.” #StudentHunger #RealCollege
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With the rising cost of college, college students are having to choose between tuition or a meal. #studenthunger #RealCollege nytimes.com/2019/05/02/nyreg…
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Hunger & Homelessness Awareness Week is just two months away! Get event ideas and register on our website here: hhweek.org/ #hhweek
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After the hard work of student organizing, @UVA will be offering a food pantry to students in need. A reminder that all schools, even the most elite schools, have students studying in conditions of #hunger and #homelessness #realcollege.
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Food insecurity on college campuses drains students’ ability to achieve their full potential. @IthacaCollege will allow their students to donate their guest pass to a student in #hunger to tackle the crisis on their campus #realcollege.
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A food pantry in Illinois will be offered exclusively to college students from 3 schools in the area. At Illinois State University, one of the schools involved in the pantry, 60% of students know a fellow student enduring #hunger in school #realcollege.
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As visibility of #hunger and #homelessness on campuses spreads, @UCBerkeley has increased their efforts to tackle the crisis by expanding their services, funding, and awareness of the services offered to students #realcollege @CALPIRGStudent @Cal_PIRG.
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The school that provided the data stimulating the national conversation of rampant #hunger and #homelessness across college campuses is now offering a food pantry to students enduring food insecurity on their campus #realcollege @TempleUniv
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Students @OTripleC struggling to pay for their meals will no longer have to come to class hungry because their school will have an on-campus food pantry due to the growing presence of #hunger on their campus.
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A community garden will be offered @WorWicCC to combat food insecurity. Ensuring all their students can a have a meal while they study #realcollege.
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As the awareness of college students enduring food insecurity and homelessness spreads into the mainstream, more colleges are setting up food pantries. #realcollege.
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“Of students experiencing food insecurity, 57% were not food insecure as children”. The exorbitant cost of tuition combined with the cost of living forces students to endure #hunger and #homelessness while pursuing a degree #realcollege.
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A local food pantry is committed to ensuring no student @waubonsee suffers from food insecurity, improving the students’ health, well-being, education, and future #realcollege.
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Students in Boston are helping #homeless youth by providing 30 days of shelter, legal advice, financial literacy, and tools to navigate social services.
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