At Greenfield Community College, MASSPIRG students collected $200 in 2 days during their “$1 week” for the Hunger Clean-up. They asked everyone on campus to bring in $1 last week to donate to the clean-up, putting jars in a cafe and the campus bookstore. The cafe is matching all of the money collected.
MASSPIRG students at Middlesex Community College spent last week preparing for and running “Rhymes For Dimes.” The open mic, co-hosted by the African American Student Association, focused on hunger, homelessness and poverty issues. Volunteers made over a dozen posters with facts & stats about the issues in Massachusetts, which were posted all over the cafeteria. Over 70 people attended the event, and students came in and out of the cafeteria to eat lunch. The event was MC’d MASSPIRG student Patrick Dill, and performances by: Patrick Jenkins, Patrick Dill, Corey Belkins, Doreen Deshler and Jeffrey Paulino. They raised over $40 for the hunger clean up and got an additional 6 students signed up to volunteer for the clean up on April 3rd.
