Students Donate Time To The Homeless

More than 600 families and 1,200 children received boxes of Thanksgiving food Saturday after 30 ASU students volunteered at the Phoenix Rescue Mission, a homeless shelter and soup kitchen.

The volunteers spent most of their time with children at various activity stations at the Office of Student Engagement’s final event to promote National Hunger and Homelessness Awareness Week, which ended Saturday.

 Randall, management intern from the Office of Student Engagement, said ASU volunteers were supposed to provide alternate activities for the children coming through with their families. The Phoenix Rescue Mission normally helps feed the homeless and give them shelter.

“We really wanted to heighten the spirit of the holiday season,” Randall said. “We also want the community to know we’re still here, we do care. We want to give thanks by giving back.”

Nicole Peña, Phoenix Rescue Mission’s director of outreach programs, said all families that came through Saturday were offered free lunch as well as community-donated boxes filled with Thanksgiving food

Peña said this year has been an especially busy one at Phoenix Rescue Mission.

“We’re doing triple the business that we normally do since the economy has been so bad,” she said, adding that she was pleased with the turnout of ASU students.Read Morehttp://www.statepress.com/node/9465

Students Donate Time To The Homeless