Poverty Awareness Week featuring Shack-a-thon at St. Norbert College

St. Norbert College's Peace and Justice Center is sponsoring Poverty Awareness

Week, Nov. 6-10. Throughout the week, a number of events open to the college

and the community will be held to raise consciousness of the reality of poverty in

the world. All events are free.

The St. Norbert College Habitat for Humanity group sponsors a campus-wide

event called SHACK-A-THON. This event helps create awareness about

homelessness and will raise money for the St. Norbert College/Habitat for

Humanity service trip to Little Rock, Ark. this winter. The cost to take part in

SHACK-A-THON is twenty dollars for a group of 4 or more or four dollars per

person for a group of three or less.

Shack construction will begin at 5 p.m. on Monday, Nov. 6 and the SHACK-A-
THON will begin at 7 p.m. in front of the St. Norbert College Campus Center.

Student groups from St. Norbert, Lawrence and UWGB along with St. Norbert

College faculty and members of the greater community will build shacks out of

their own materials or materials provided. Representatives from each group will

live in the shack during the night. This event will wrap up on Tuesday, Nov. 7

at 7 a.m.

For more information, e-mail emily.czarnik-neimeyer@snc.edu or call (920) 403-
3627. For more information on other Poverty Awareness Week activities.