For the Empty Bowls Hunger Project, more than 100
students made and glazed ceramic bowls to be sold during Parent and Family Days weekends. An educational speaker
from the Food Bank of Western MA spoke to each work group about
hunger in our local area and the country. The fall sale brought
in $437 for the Food Bank and local Community Meals Program.
A bloodmobile set up outside the Blake Student Center
received an overwhelming number of donors.
Students made a Names Quilt panel with the Boston Names
Project coordinator, who spoke about AIDs in
the US while they sewed. The panel made by
NMH students will travel to different cities in the US and
Africa with the Names Project displays.
Service fairs in Blake and Tracy Student Centers hosted 25
agencies and service projects with activities such as arranging
thank-you bouquets for staff, assembling care packages for a local
homeless shelter, and gathering school
supplies for a Honduras children’s project. Also at the fair
were musicians singing songs of service and activism.
Many groups planted mums and spring bulbs on campus and in
local parks, and picked up trash along streets and the banks of
the Connecticut River.
Charity car washes raised money for Operation Happy
Birthday, an outreach project for local shelter and foster children.
Students painted the new storefront for a local food
pantry, while others cooked food to be served at the
Community Meals sites. Hundreds of pounds of emergency canned
foods were collected to stem the local food pantry shortage.
