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Student Report: Concordia students take it to the streets

  • Posted on August 8, 2011 at 2:39 am

now.concordia.ca Concordia students, along with thousands of peers across the country, are uniting to raise funds for itinerant youth in Montreal this week. Until Friday, March 18, they’ll be sleeping outside the Henry F. Hall Bldg., at Mackay St. and De Maisonneuve Blvd., as part of “5 Days for the Homeless” — a national event for which Concordians have raised some $100000 over the last four years.This year, for the first time, Concordia students will be joined by peers from HEC Montréal, McGill University and the Université du Québec à Montréal. They hope to raise $35000. Students will collect funds for Dans la Rue, a local homeless shelter that reaches out to youth. They’ll spend five days sleeping on the streets — rain or shine. The event, originally brought to Concordia as an initiative of John Molson School of Business students, has since recruited participants from all disciplines to raise funds for the homeless. Vanessa Manco, a student in the Concordia Department of Classics, Modern Languages and Linguistics, is taking part in “5 Days for the Homeless.” She looks forward to her first experience with the fundraiser — even though she’s a little nervous about sleeping on the streets. She knows there won’t be any home cooked meals, cell phones, laptops, showers or beds — only cardboard boxes and sleeping bags. While she’ll attend classes, Manco won’t be allowed to buy food and she’ll have to rely on edibles donated from passers-by. Michel Boyer, a Department of …

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