Posted on 03/10/2008 6:03:32 AM PDT by Braak
EDMONTON -- Students at universities across Canada may come across a surprise when they show up for class this morning -- groups of fellow students huddled against the cold, asking if they could spare something to eat for breakfast.
Dozens of students are camping out on the campuses of 10 universities from last night to Friday night to raise awareness and money for a variety of charities aimed at helping homeless youth.
The students will have no money or access to food, drinks or showers. They will have to survive on donations and must sleep outside unless temperatures plunge low enough to put their health at risk.
"They have a sleeping bag, a pillow, they find some cardboard to sleep on top of to stay dry, their coats and their mitts and their toques," said Chantel Pitcher, a University of Alberta student and part of the national organizing committee of Five Days for the Homeless.
Do their parents still have to pay tuition and board?
So these spoiled kids are depriving a real homeless person from a donation.
No, they spent five days camping. They were not homeless.
“Do their parents still have to pay tuition and board?”
That would be the real lesson...not just ACT homeless, rather be cut off from their source of funding.
***They will have to survive on donations and must sleep outside unless temperatures plunge low enough to put their health at risk. ***
Get a real job, dum bass! It works for me!
BFD. Thousands do this by choice every year
Here’s an example
http://trailjournals.com/entry.cfm?trailname=6399
lol!
No, if they REALLY want to experience what many “homeless” experience, they should:
1) drop out of school and alientate all their relations
2) develop an uncontrollable addiction to alcohol or some other substance
3) get a mental illness
THEN maybe they can say they walked in the shoes of the so-called “homeless.”
wait, students at KU do that to get basketball tickets. How is this different?
LOL!
But I missed the part on Army bivouacs and camping trips that I went on where I was supposed to sit in a doorway and beg for money. Maybe that is “advanced camping.”
Ok, this is useful how?
feeeeeeliiings, oh oh oh feeeelliingsss
Ok, that would keep me out of class.
How stupid are these students? Canada? In March?
Homeless guys go to Florida.
Galatians 2:10
They desired only that we should remember the poor, the very thing which I also was eager to do.
The coeds could shower at my place.
Until I noted that raising awareness doesn't feed, clothe or shelter any homeless. If they really wanted to help the homeless, take them into their homes and feed, clothe and shelter them until the homeless find jobs and can provide for themselves.
They found other ways to get in touch with their feelings.
It just may remind them, rather forcefully, of how important it is to be on the right side of the parable about the Rich Man and Lazarus.
Perhaps you should join them...?
Maybe this will prompt young people to join voluntary service organizations like Lions and others, which do an excellent job in charity work with almost 100% efficiency compared to the government where money simply goes down a rathole.
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