{"id":40,"date":"2010-04-13T10:44:38","date_gmt":"2010-04-13T10:44:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/trinshots\/2010\/04\/13\/students_combat_hunger_and_homelessness\/"},"modified":"2010-04-13T10:44:38","modified_gmt":"2010-04-13T10:44:38","slug":"students_combat_hunger_and_homelessness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/trinshots\/2010\/04\/13\/students_combat_hunger_and_homelessness\/","title":{"rendered":"Students Combat Hunger and Homelessness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"mt-image-left\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.trincoll.edu\/trinshots\/elizabeth%20Park-Trinity%20and%20UConnH%20students.jpg\" width=\"448\" height=\"336\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Trinity College students joined others&nbsp;in one of the largest national fundraising and community service a-thons in the country by volunteering at local hunger and homelessness relief agencies inthe Hartford community.&nbsp; Students prepared community gardens, cooked and served food, repaired and cleaned food banks, planted gardens in parks, and did manual construction. <br \/>Across the state, students have raised more than $8,000 to fight hunger and homelessness. Half of the donations benefit the Hartford Rescue Mission, Tri-Town Shelter, and St. Elizabeth House of Mercy Housing and Shelter. The remaining donations will help fight national poverty while also providing relief to those in Haiti. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The Hunger Cleanup and other events are essential since they remind students that we are members of the Hartford community especially at a time when social services are being cut,&#8221; Katie Goodman &#8217;10, ConnPIRG Hunger and Homelessness coordinator, said.&nbsp; &#8220;It is important students maintain engagement with the community and this is one example of how we can be involved while having students work directly with community members.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Trinity College students joined others&nbsp;in one of the largest national fundraising and community service a-thons in the country by volunteering at local hunger and homelessness relief agencies inthe Hartford community.&nbsp; Students prepared community gardens, cooked and served food, repaired and cleaned food banks, planted gardens in parks, and did manual construction. Across the state, students [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":38,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/trinshots\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/trinshots\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/trinshots\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/trinshots\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/38"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/trinshots\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/trinshots\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/trinshots\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/trinshots\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/trinshots\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}