Hunger and Homelessness
MaryPIRG students and the National Student Campaign Against Hunger and Homelessness hosted the National Resolve to Fight Poverty Conference where over 100 students from across the country came to UMD to learn from experts how to help fight poverty. At the conference we had a “Faces of Homelessness” panel presented by the National Coalition of the Homeless where formerly homeless people shared their stories and opened our eyes to the realities of the homeless population. We also had a Hunger Banquet put on by Oxfam where students experienced the disparity of global food scarcity by simulating an average dinner for different populations of the world.