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We
have general meetings at least three times a semester. You can meet
all the
officers and enjoy free food, while obtaining valuable information
on the events we organize. Please come and join us at the dates marked
in our event calendar and contribute your thoughts in how we can improve
and what other opportunities to help the Poor in Boston/Cambridge area.
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Currently
the Hunger Action Group is working with StarMarket to bring leftover
bakery goods to CASPAR three times a week. Students either wheel a shopping
cart between the two buildings (about 15 minutes walk each way), or
transport via car if necessary.
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CASPAR is the Cambridge and Somerville Program for Alcohol and Drug Rehabilitation for the homeless located at 240 Albany Street in Cambridge, just a 5 minute walk from campus. It started in 1979 in the form of three dilapidated wooden trailers, and has slowly developed into the rehabilitative center it is today. CASPAR operates on a very limited budget and is grateful for any help that community volunteers can give to it. This year CASPAR is under new management and reduced funding from the city of Cambridge; it needs our help more than ever! The Hunger Action Group usually makes trips to CASPAR every Friday (~3-5pm) and Saturday (~4:30 - 6:30pm). Please contact hunger-request@mit.edu for more information. |
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Rosie's
Place, located at 889 harrison Ave, Boston, was founded in 1974 and
became the first women's shelter in Boston. It serves the growing
numbers of the poor and the homeless women and seeks to help these women
with their basic needs, and to provide them with a supportive community.
We would like to plan a group service trip to Rosie's Place this year. |
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The Walk
For Hunger is usually the first sunday of May. This year it takes place
on May 2. Last year we organized a group to walk the entire 20 miles
(in 5.5 hours)!!! This year we will strive for greater participation,
and perhaps even set up a water booth/nourishment stop along the route
and cheer on the Boston community.
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Saturday/Sunday
Bread is a program at the Church of All Nations, located at Church of
St. John the Evangelist, 35 Bowdoin Street on Beacon Hill in Boston,
that serves hot meals to people in need in Boston every Saturday and
Sunday. It is an "interfaith, interracial, interdenominational
human activity of people concerned about the hungry in the Boston area."
Sat/Sun Bread is an entirely volunteer organization comprised of about
35 groups that take turns cooking and serving the meals each weekend.
We assist with Saturday/Sunday Bread once a month.
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National
Hunger & Homelessness Awareness Week is held during mid-week fo
November. For 2003, MIT HAG had a booth in student center to raise money
for the poor and raised the awareness in the campus through lobby 7
drop posters, many flyers, and distribution of stickers. Please join
us to man the booth and organize fun events to raise awareness in MIT
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