Poverty Awareness Week featuring Shack-a-thon at St. Norbert College

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From St. Norbert College, October 23, 2006
by Mike Counter, mike.counter@snc.edu, (920) 403-3089

St. Norbert College's Peace and Justice Center is sponsoring Poverty Awareness Week, Nov. 6-10. Throughout the week, a number of events open to the college and the community will be held to raise consciousness of the reality of poverty in the world. All events are free.

The St. Norbert College Habitat for Humanity group sponsors a campus-wide event called SHACK-A-THON. This event helps create awareness about homelessness and will raise money for the St. Norbert College/Habitat for Humanity service trip to Little Rock, Ark. this winter. The cost to take part in SHACK-A-THON is twenty dollars for a group of 4 or more or four dollars per person for a group of three or less.

Shack construction will begin at 5 p.m. on Monday, Nov. 6 and the SHACK-A-
THON will begin at 7 p.m. in front of the St. Norbert College Campus Center. Student groups from St. Norbert, Lawrence and UWGB along with St. Norbert College faculty and members of the greater community will build shacks out of their own materials or materials provided. Representatives from each group will live in the shack during the night. This event will wrap up on Tuesday, Nov. 7 at 7 a.m.

For more information, e-mail emily.czarnik-neimeyer@snc.edu or call (920) 403-
3627. For more information on other Poverty Awareness Week activities.