By: Angie Funnell
Twice each year, CCASL’s Service-Learning Office organizes a service fair for Gonzaga students, staff and faculty interested in becoming more involve with the local community. Nearly 120 non-profits are invited to campus to share more about their volunteer opportunities bringing awareness about their specific cause to student. Agencies represented offer opportunities to work with women, children, the homeless, senior citizens, or to help with advocacy in environmental and social justice. There are a myriad of student run mentoring programs, hospice and post grad programs represented such as the Peace Corps International, Jesuit Volunteer Corps, Teach4America and more.
Twice each year, CCASL’s Service-Learning Office organizes a service fair for Gonzaga students, staff and faculty interested in becoming more involve with the local community. Nearly 120 non-profits are invited to campus to share more about their volunteer opportunities bringing awareness about their specific cause to student. Agencies represented offer opportunities to work with women, children, the homeless, senior citizens, or to help with advocacy in environmental and social justice. There are a myriad of student run mentoring programs, hospice and post grad programs represented such as the Peace Corps International, Jesuit Volunteer Corps, Teach4America and more.
A senior leader, Katy Close, is the new campus kitchens intern for the 2011-2012 academic year. Katy has been involved with CCASL since her freshman year when she started volunteering with the campus kitchens community dinners every week. As the campus kitchens intern, Katy coordinates volunteers for the Thursday night community dinners as well as is a pivotal resource for the leadership team and students. Campus Kitchen’s is a unique organization that seeks the injustice in the unacceptable amount of food wasted in our society. One of 25 branches nationwide, CKGU takes food from many sources, such as the COG and Second Harvest Food Bank, to provide nutritional and delicious meals for those in need in the Spokane community.
Get involved: http://www.gonzaga.edu/student-life/Get-Involved/Community-Action-and-Service-Learning/CCASL-programs/Campus-Kitchens.asp
Get involved: http://www.gonzaga.edu/student-life/Get-Involved/Community-Action-and-Service-Learning/CCASL-programs/Campus-Kitchens.asp
From Katy’s perspective, she’s said, “Service is important because not only does it benefit people within a given community but it also encourages growth, learning and purpose for the server. Service causes all people involved to learn and grow in a way that other involvement or engagement cannot offer. As Gonzaga students, we are a privileged and able group of people who have no reason to not be involved with the betterment of the Spokane community.”
Campus Kitchen’s was one of the many non-profit organizations that attended the Service Fest in Cataldo Hall, on Wednesday September 21st, 2011. Katy has said, the “service festival is always an encouraging experience. It's amazing how many different organizations show up and how many opportunities students have to be involved in their community.”
For more information about getting involved with service-learning opportunities please contact Molly Ayers at (509) 313-6487 or ayers@gonzaga.edu.
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