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National Hunger and Homelessness
Awareness Week 2007
November 11th-17th
Featuring the GW Oxfam Hunger Banquet
with Special Guest President Steven Knapp
Key-Note Speaker Kim Perry, Vice-Chair of Mayor Fenty's Commission on Food and Nutrition Facilitator
Professor Howard Straker of GW's Physician Assistant Program
Join fellow students, staff, faculty, and community partners in this interactive simulation of domestic and global poverty.
This event is also part of President Knapp's Inaugural Week.
November 13 in the Marvin Center Grand Ballroom from 7-9pm.
Check-in begins at 6:30
Suggested entrance donation of two non-perishable food items
THE REST OF THE WEEK'S EVENTS INCLUDE:Food Donation Drive - all week Dormstorming will take place on November 12th from 8-10pmDrop off donations to the Office of Community Service at 2129 G St. as well as in bins located around campus Donations to benefit DC Central Kitchen, Capital Area Food Bank, and Foggy Bottom Food PantryFood for Though Poetry Slam with The Link Join GW student writers and artists, poets from Miriam's Kitchen and journalists from Street Sense
in a spoken word event about homelessness and poverty.Free fair trade coffee provided by Starbucks will be availableNovember 14th in the Mitchell Theater from 8-10pm 20th Annual Fannie Mae Help the Homeless WalkathonSupport local community partners seeking to end homelessnessWalk with a team or individually to help raise money for our community partner nonprofits!To register, please go to http://gwired.gwu.edu/sac/ocs November 17th: Pre-walk rally in University Yard at 7:30am with free snacks and coffee
Co-sponsors
Include: Student Activities Center, Office of Community Service,
Neighbors Project, ISCOPES, The Human Services Program of the GW
Sociology Department, GW Fair Trade, Student Global AIDS Campaign,
Panhellenic Association, Roosevelt Institution, National Society of
Collegiate Scholars and Student Movement for Real Change For more information on any of these events, please email Abby at poverty@gwu.edu, stop by the Office of Community Service at 2129 G St. NW, or call (202) 994-5493
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DON'T FORGET!
Help the Homeless Walkathon
November 17th
The Washington, D.C., Help the Homeless Walkathon is scheduled for November 17, 2007, on the National Mall between 7th and 14th Streets NW.
Please remember our community partners when registering for the Walkathon!
GW Walkers will meet that morning at 7:30 AM on University Yard for coffee and doughnuts before heading to the National Mall.
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