{"id":1022,"date":"2017-06-08T14:17:02","date_gmt":"2017-06-08T19:17:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/inside.gcschool.org\/gracegazette\/?p=1022"},"modified":"2018-04-03T14:49:28","modified_gmt":"2018-04-03T19:49:28","slug":"fighting-homelessness-one-neighbourhood-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gracegazette.org\/wordpress1\/fighting-homelessness-one-neighbourhood-time\/","title":{"rendered":"Fighting Homelessness One Neighbourhood at a Time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Last Friday, May 19, we, at the Students Fighting Homelessness Club, used the money earned from bake sales and galvanized support from the student body to make over 50 sandwiches, as well as purchase 50 accompanying Gatorades, to distribute, free of charge, to the homeless population of Tompkins Square Park. We began our venture at Cooper Square, and we walked East along St. Marks until we reached Tompkins Square, handing out meals at every given opportunity. We managed to give away our entire inventory within the first two hours, which was a fantastic achievement.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Although we fed Tompkins Square for just a day, we know that our service to the homeless of the East Village is just beginning, and we hope the student body of Grace can recognize the philanthropic opportunity that our club provides. This is visible through an interaction<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">We would like to thank the following students for their immeasurable contribution to this project: Josh Hull (\u201819), Graham Kelley (\u201819), Gabriel Ortega (\u201819), Zephan D\u2019Cruz Syiemlieh (\u201819), Harry Mander (\u201819), Brian Jorgensen (\u201819), and Paul Hirschorn (\u201819). <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Below are an assortment of images from last Friday:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1023 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/inside.gcschool.org\/gracegazette\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2017\/06\/Screen-Shot-2017-06-08-at-2.09.40-PM-300x224.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"224\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1024 alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/inside.gcschool.org\/gracegazette\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2017\/06\/Screen-Shot-2017-06-08-at-2.08.31-PM-300x226.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"226\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1025 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/inside.gcschool.org\/gracegazette\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2017\/06\/Screen-Shot-2017-06-08-at-2.08.52-PM-300x185.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"185\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1026 alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/inside.gcschool.org\/gracegazette\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2017\/06\/Screen-Shot-2017-06-08-at-2.09.33-PM-300x224.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"224\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1027 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/inside.gcschool.org\/gracegazette\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2017\/06\/Screen-Shot-2017-06-08-at-2.09.04-PM-300x224.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"224\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1028 alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/inside.gcschool.org\/gracegazette\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2017\/06\/Screen-Shot-2017-06-08-at-2.09.24-PM-300x224.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"224\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1029 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/inside.gcschool.org\/gracegazette\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2017\/06\/Screen-Shot-2017-06-08-at-2.09.15-PM-300x225.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1030 alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/inside.gcschool.org\/gracegazette\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2017\/06\/Screen-Shot-2017-06-08-at-2.08.19-PM-300x225.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last Friday, May 19, we, at the Students Fighting Homelessness Club, used the money earned from bake sales and galvanized support from the student body to make over 50 sandwiches,&hellip; <span class=\"read-more-span\"><a href=\"https:\/\/gracegazette.org\/wordpress1\/fighting-homelessness-one-neighbourhood-time\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Fighting Homelessness One Neighbourhood at a Time&#8221;<\/span> <span class=\"genericon genericon-next\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":1366,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"appful":[],"class_list":["post-1022","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-school"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9uEnr-gu","jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/gracegazette.org\/wordpress1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Screen-Shot-2017-06-08-at-2.08.19-PM-300x225.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gracegazette.org\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1022","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gracegazette.org\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gracegazette.org\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gracegazette.org\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gracegazette.org\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1022"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gracegazette.org\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1022\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1367,"href":"https:\/\/gracegazette.org\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1022\/revisions\/1367"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gracegazette.org\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1366"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gracegazette.org\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1022"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gracegazette.org\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1022"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gracegazette.org\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1022"},{"taxonomy":"appful","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gracegazette.org\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/appful?post=1022"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}