Photo courtesy of Kallie Stahl, Communication and Marketing Specialist.
Thank you to everyone who donated to the Hunger and Homelessness Awareness Week (HHAW) food drive. There’s still time to drop off non-perishable food items. Just look for the donation box on Falvey’s first floor (in front of the HHAW display).
Kallie Stahl ’17 MA is Communication and Marketing Specialist at Falvey Memorial Library.
Photo courtesy pf the Villanova University Digital Library.
In 1975, Hunger and Homelessness Awareness Week (HHAW) was started by Father Ray Jackson and a group of Villanova students. This organization has a deep history at Villanova. This year, HHAW week is Sunday, Nov. 13 to Saturday, Nov. 19. You can donate a meal or enter the raffle to win prizes at this link. This week’s Throwback Thursday (TBT) is a letter from 1986 that Katie Dean, Chairperson of Run for Hunger, distributed to Villanova faculty.
Anna Jankowski ’23 CLAS is a senior Communication major from just outside Baltimore who works as a Communication & Marketing Assistant in Falvey Library.
By Jenna Renaud
The above picture was featured in The Villanovan in 2001. The 36th Annual Hunger and Homelessness Awareness Week (HHAW) included food and clothing drives, a hunger run, a solidarity sleep-out, and a keynote address by Sr. Mary Scullion. This week marks Villanova’s 46th Annual HHAW.
HHAW was started in 1975 by Augustinian priest Rev. Ray Jackson, OSA, and a group of Villanova students operating on their three pillars of education, advocacy, and service. The week has since expanded to over 700 campuses and communities nationwide.
For this year’s HHAW Villanova has hosted a wide variety of events to educate people about the homeless population in the United States and do our part to serve. To learn more about the remaining events this week, visit the Villanova HHAW website: https://vuhungerweek.wixsite.com/mysite
Jenna Renaud is a graduate student in the Communication Department and graduate assistant in Falvey Memorial Library.
By Jenna Renaud
Villanova University is celebrating the 46th Annual Hunger & Homelessness Awareness Week (HHAW) from Sunday, November 14 through Saturday, November 20. To kick off the week, we dug deeper into the history of HHAW and provided resources to help you learn more about homelessness, hunger, and poverty.
Hunger & homelessness. Hunger Homelessness Awareness Week. (n.d.). Retrieved November 15, 2021, from https://hhweek.org/hunger-and-homelessness/.
HHAW was started in 1975 by Augustinian priest the Rev. Ray Jackson, OSA, and a group of Villanova students operating on their three pillars of education, advocacy, and service. The ultimate goal? Zero people affected by hunger and homelessness. Although starting at Villanova University, HHAW has since expanded to over 700 campuses and communities nationwide! Each year, HHAW has hundreds of thousands of participants that raise millions of dollars for local service providers.
To learn more about HHAW at Villanova visit: https://vuhungerweek.wixsite.com/mysite
To learn more about HHAW nationwide visit: https://hhweek.org/
Monday, Nov. 15
Postgraduate Service Fair; Villanova Room-Connelly Center, 5–7 p.m.
Postgraduate Service Chat; The Refectory, 8-9:30 p.m.
Wednesday, Nov. 17
Fair Trade Craft Fair; Connelly Center Ground Floor Atrium, 10 a.m.–4 p.m.
Keynote Event: The Heart of Camden, the Story of Father Michael Doyle; Connelly Cinema, 7 p.m.
Thursday, Nov. 18
Donate A Meal; Campus Dining Halls, Lunch
The HHAW is hosting its annual Fast Day. For every meal donation collected, Dining Services will donate an amount for each meal to partner organizations helping those experiencing hunger and homelessness.
Solidarity Vigil, The Grotto; 7 p.m.
Saturday, Nov. 20
Back On My Feet Turkey Trot 5K; The Oreo, 9:30 a.m.
For more information on HHAW and its schedule of events for 2021, visit the HHAW site.
All books are currently displayed outside of Holy Grounds on the first floor of Falvey. Books will be available for check-out starting next week.
Poverty and the underclass: changing perceptions of the poor in America by William Alton Kelso
Confronting homelessness: poverty, politics, and the failure of social policy by David Wagner
Homeless not hopeless: the survival networks of Latino and African American men by Edna Maritza Molina-Jackson
Tell them who I am: The Lives of Homeless Women by Elliot Liebow
All You Can Eat: How Hungry is America? by Joel Berg
Below is a list of ways to get involved in HHAW in Philly. Click on the following link to view more information and a full description of events: https://www.phila.gov/2021-11-08-hunger-and-homelessness-awareness-week-2021-philly-events-and-information/
Jenna Renaud is a graduate student in the Communication Department and graduate assistant in Falvey Memorial Library.