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Students Weather Rain to Raise $32K to Help Others in U.S., Haiti
WASHINGTON (Mach 7) -- Despite the downpour, scores of Howard University students, many of them soaked from the rain, took to the streets for 12 hours Sunday to raise money so they can help people in Haiti and in five U.S. cities during their spring break.
The WHUR 96.3 Helping Hands radiothon, an annual fundraising event to help send hundreds of students across the country to help residents in troubled neighborhoods across the globe, raised $32,000. The effort is...more |
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Students Return for Second Year of ASB Service
ATLANTA (March 14) –For the second year in a row, Kandice Purdy has decided not to go home to Harlem, N.Y., or head to the beach like so many of her classmates. Instead, she is in Atlanta, tutoring elementary school students as part of Howard University’s Alternative Spring Break (ASB) program.
Every year, hundreds of Howard University students elect to spend their spring break volunteering in communities across America as they gain a deeper understanding of the true meaning of service with each experience. This year, more than 300 are in Atlanta, Chicago, Detroit, New Orleans and Haiti...more |
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It's the Maiden ASB for Many Howard Students in Atlanta
ATLANTA- Baltimore native Nikkia Echols, a former dancer for the Randallstown High School Band, is skipping mom’s home cooking and the chance to help out with her old dance team this spring break. Neither, is she lounging on a beach, like so many of her fellow college students do this time of the year, or hanging at a famous spring break party hot spot.
Instead, Echols is at Hope Hill Elementary School in Atlanta tutoring 4th grade students in math and English in preparation for state achievement tests...more |
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