{"id":11638,"date":"2022-04-04T08:36:18","date_gmt":"2022-04-04T12:36:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/?p=11638"},"modified":"2022-04-04T09:37:15","modified_gmt":"2022-04-04T13:37:15","slug":"elizabethtown-college-provides-aid-for-thousands-at-2022-day-of-service","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/2022\/04\/04\/elizabethtown-college-provides-aid-for-thousands-at-2022-day-of-service\/","title":{"rendered":"Elizabethtown College Provides Aid for Thousands at 2022 Day of Service\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Elizabethtown College hosted a campus-wide spring Day of Service on Friday, April 1. Partnering with Unto, a local humanitarian organization, more than <\/span>232<\/span> Blue Jay students, faculty, staff, and <\/span>alumni<\/span> helped pack <\/span>46,000<\/span> rice and <\/span>lentil<\/span> meals that will be sent to refugee families experiencing food insecurity.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Watch a video recap of the event.<\/a><\/p>\n

Four one-hour and fifteen-minute sessions were held in Thompson Gym to pack the meals, while more than 30 packs of remote service work were provided for those that could not participate in person.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

On average, each person\u2019s involvement provided over <\/span>198 <\/span>meals from a 75-minute packing session. Each box of <\/span>144<\/span> meals will feed a family of five a meal a day for a month, which means roughly <\/span>68<\/span> families will be provided with one meal a day for a month because of the work done by the campus community.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Unto\u00ae, the humanitarian ministry of the Campus Crusade for Christ<\/a>, coordinated the packaging of meals for refugee families in need around the world. As a Christian organization, Unto\u00ae ships humanitarian aid resources to its partners in some of the toughest places on earth, including over 30 countries in Africa, the Middle East, Latin America, Central Asia, and Southeast Asia.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Javita Thompson, Director of the Center for Community and Civic Engagement (CCCE), expressed what this event means to her and the Blue Jay community.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cIt is so rewarding to assist with programs that are meaningful and beneficial to community partners,\u201d Thompson said. \u201cOur Educate for Service motto is an opportunity for the CCCE to provide collaborative and meaningful connection service for our students, faculty, staff, and the community.\u201d\u00a0<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

In addition to the CCCE, the Day of Service was sponsored by the Office of the Chaplain and Religious Life, the Office of Diversity, Equity, and Belonging (DEB), and the Center for Global Understanding and Peacemaking.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Photos from the event can be viewed on Flickr.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Elizabethtown College hosted a campus-wide spring Day of Service on Friday, April 1. Partnering with Unto, a local humanitarian organization, more than 232 Blue Jay students, faculty, staff, and alumni helped pack 46,000 rice and lentil meals that will be sent to refugee families experiencing food insecurity.\u00a0 Watch a video recap of the event. Four […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":140,"featured_media":11639,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[775],"tags":[1506,197,1350],"class_list":["post-11638","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-campus","tag-day-of-service","tag-elizabethtown-college","tag-etown","et-has-post-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11638","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/140"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11638"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11638\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11646,"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11638\/revisions\/11646"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11639"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11638"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11638"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11638"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}