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Hunger for Justice Week - Monday, November 16, 2009 at 5:15PM EST

Reported by: Mike Trim
Monday, Nov 16, 2009 @ 05:15pm EST
WILKES-BARRE, LUZERNE COUNTY -- King's College students are trading in their warm dorm rooms for cardboard boxes. For 60 hours, co-eds are raising awareness about the problem of homelessness.
Freshman Crystal Simile was bundled up with blankets in a box Monday morning. "I'm doing two hours and I'm cold already," said Simile.

Simile and dozens of KingŐs students are taking part in . ItŐs a demonstration to raise awareness for the homeless.

Katie Phelan hopes fellow students will learn something when she sits in this box tomorrow night. "Just walking around the streets of Wilkes-Barre, you see homeless people. So I think it's good for them to think about it," said Phelan.

At least 200 people are homeless in Luzerne County alone every day. Sophomore Sara Garte doesn't care what anyone might say passing by this display. "When they walk by they'll like laugh and make fun of us but hopefully most people will get a positive experience out of it," said Garte.

On Tuesday night there will be a prayer vigil right in the heart of campus at Monarch Court. A big turnout is expected.

Students will still be in the boxes until 9pm Wednesday. People at that vigil will pray for people who are homeless right now on the streets of Wilkes-Barre and beyond.

KingŐs College Community Outreach Coordinator Ave Moran said, "It's a stroke of bad luck, that's how they became homeless. Its individuals that we need to reach out to and help because anyone could be in that situation," said Moran.

For a couple of hours, King's students will get a taste of that situation in hopes to make a change.
 


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