How College Students Are Giving Back In Response to Recession
Her Campus takes a look at how college students are giving back in response to the recession. HerCampus.com is an online magazine for college women that individualizes its content college-by-college, by a team of over 500 students at over 60 colleges across the country.
The recession hit our nation hard–including college students. Stephanie Kaplan, CEO of Her Campus and her team decided to look at the positives of the recession rather than looking at how individual college students were personally impacted by it. With that, Her Campus finds out how college students are giving back in response to the recession.
Read here (thank you Huffington Post College) for eight inspiring stories of 9 students across the country that found ways to give back to their communities and their campuses. Among the volunteers there is an art activist in NYC, student tech-supporters, a family helper, a backpacker that offers his help in Latin America, a rally organizer that protests proposed budget cuts, a student who raises money to help a neighborhood community in Chicago, a Braille teacher, a student who raised $9,000 for starving children in Kenya, and finally, a student that helps “rebuild” her community through the Sustainable Cities Initiative.
This is food for thought for all of the high school and college students out there who would like to volunteer and give back during a time of need. These extraordinary students are setting a fabulous example for students nationwide; get out there and help!
Student Art Activist helps out in local community
Student Tech Supporters offer their help during the recession
College Student helps children become fluent in Braille after learning that the government stopped funding Braille education in public schools.
Student volunteers for "Give Back a Pack Foundation" in Latin America
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