Featured Image: ProJeCt’s Food Pantry Coordinator Michele Kennedy (center) receives a $1,250 check courtesy of Lafayette College students from the Landis Center for Community Engagement and Lafayette Activities Forum, along with Amber Zuber (right), the Landis Center’s Director of Leadership and Student Services. Photo courtesy of Stephen Wilson and Lafayette College.
 
(EASTON, PA) — Students from Lafayette College’s Landis Center for Community Engagement and Activities Forum (LAF) came together in a big way to provide relief for people in need in the Easton area.

Students presented ProJeCt of Easton and Cheston Elementary School each with a check for $1,250, along with a combined collection of more than 1,200 pounds of nonperishable food for their respective food pantries.

Lafayette’s Rivalry Week with Lehigh University coincided this year with National Hunger and Homelessness Awareness Week, so the two Lafayette organizations decided to unite their efforts to make a difference. Students from the Landis Center ran a week-long food drive and collected both cash and food donations. LAF students, meanwhile, sold – and sold out – their traditional rivalry game t-shirts.

“We are so grateful to have organizations like Lafayette College support our mission,” says Tom Harper, ProJeCt’s director of development. “Our food pantry is one of the many ways that we provide relief and hope for people at risk in our community. Having these students come to the aid of people we’re proud to serve daily is simply wonderful.”

Since 1968, ProJeCt has helped people throughout the Lehigh Valley break free from the cycle of poverty. ProJeCt’s mission is to build a better community by helping people help themselves succeed in school, work and life through adult education, family literacy, school-based programming and emergency support services.

 

Information and image provided to TVL by:
Tom Harper
Director of Development
ProJeCt of Easton, Inc.
320 Ferry St., Easton, PA 18042
www.projecteaston.org

 

 

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