West Coast Student Summit on Hunger and Homelessness

Posted by on January 23, 2004

[posted to National K-12 Service-Learning listserv]

The 2nd Annual West Coast Student Summit on
Hunger and Homelessness
OUR PROBLEMS, OUR SOLUTIONS:
Students Addressing Issues of Hunger and Homelessness
University of California, Berkeley
February 28-29, 2004

The National Student Campaign Against Hunger and Homelessness is proud to invite you to attend the 2nd Annual West Coast Student Summit on Hunger and Homelessness at the University of California, Berkeley from February 28-29, 2004. This amazing event will bring together over 200 students from across the West Coast to learn more about the issues of hunger and homelessness, gain valuable leadership skills and ideas, and help them launch innovative programs in their own communities.

Our generation has never known an America without Hunger and Homelessness. Through slashes to the government’s social policies, economic downturns, and a growing disparity between the cost of housing and minimum wages, homelessness increased 300% since 1980, and hunger in America hasn’t been this widespread since the Great Depression.

Even more appalling is that Hunger and Homelessness DOES NOT need to exist! As the wealthiest nation in the world, the United States has more than enough resources to feed and house everyone.

Attend this annual event to learn what solutions you can use as an individual and what we can do as a movement to abolish these unnecessary social problems.

Registration for the Summit has already begun. So, visit http://www.studentsagainsthunger.org for more information or give us a call at 1-800-664-8647. The registration fee is $45 for students, $60 for non-students and covers all Summit materials, breakfasts and lunches, and housing.

We look forward to seeing you at Berkeley in February!