Feed the Children chapter seeks students

In an effort to bring a division of Feed the Children to Southern University, students Sabrina Whitney and Shanylrica Lee are looking for interested students and faculty who want to become involved in giving back to the community.
“Feed the Children is a community service organization who reaches out to young children whose parents cannot afford to provide food, or have abandoned their child,” said Whitney, the club president and a junior criminal justice/political science major from Tallulah.
Whitney and vice president Lee, a junior criminal justice major from Monroe, began the program last September.
Learning from their families, Whitney and Lee have seen their parents sponsor children overseas and donate money to various organizations.
“I have a strong passion for children,” said Whitney, “and it hurts my heart to see children who are barely hanging on because they can’t eat, their parents have to skip meals to help them. When I saw that, I thought what can I do to help other people that will not cost much money but can get the whole university and it’s community involved.”
The organization has grown since September, but in order to become more significant, it is necessary that more faculty and students become active members of the university chapter.
“We had a lot of involvement,” Lee explained, “but it won’t be a big success until the university [faculty and staff] puts forth a bigger effort. It would be nice to have all the organizations, all the students, take part and make it a success.”
This semester, Southern’s chapter of Feed the Children will drop donations off to two drop-off centers. The first will go the Healing Place Church on Highland Road this week and to Bethany World Prayer Center on Plank Road in May.
With more university involvement, Southern’s Feed the Children can exceed its two drop-offs a semester and expand to bi-weekly drop-offs.
“It’s not about emptying out your pantries to give; but one can good, something you are not using always helps,” said Lee.
Donation boxes are set up in Rodney G. Higgins Hall for easy access.
“Overall I think its a good organization,” said Whitney. “It says a lot that you have students who actually care about helping other people.”
Jason McGee, senior engineering major form Simmesport, believes this type of organization would assist needy families.
“It is a good idea because now-a-days some families can’t afford to pay their rent and buy clothes; they don’t have enough money to buy food and pampers.”