Submitted by tmanning on Tue, 2009-12-29 12:13

C.W. Post Catholic Student Club Raises $2,500 for Covenant House

Newman Club’s Homelessness Awareness Week activities in late November
included assistance to needy on New York City streets

Brookville, N.Y. – Students, faculty and staff at the C.W. Post Campus of Long Island University contributed nearly $2,500 to a fund-raising drive for Covenant House by the Newman Catholic Community, the campus Roman Catholic student organization, during Homelessness Awareness Week.

Newman catholic Community members marked Homelessness Awareness Week by distributing food to the homeless on the streets of New York City, attending a vigil in Times Square for homeless teenagers, working at a soup kitchen, erecting an educational shantytown on the C.W. Post campus and organizing a coffee house with homelessness awareness as its theme. Covenant House is the largest privately-funded agency in the Americas that provides food, shelter, immediate crisis care, and an array of other important services to homeless, throwaway, and runaway youth.

Members of the Newman Catholic Community, founded in 1955, take part in worship, community service, trips, retreats and shared meals, and strengthen their community by living out the Social Teachings of the church.