No. 16 Vol. 4
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April 2018
Madison High School Students Sleep Out To Benefit Homeless
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By Dawn M. Chiossi ecently, Madison High School Students not only showed their empathy for the homeless, they experienced it. On March 16, these students stepped into the freezing skin of the homeless, enduring this year’s below normal cold temperatures, by sleeping outside on school grounds in order to raise awareness to the issue of homelessness and the problems they face on a regular basis. Staggeringly 1 in 45 kids in America will face homelessness this year, according to statistics. Raising approximately more than $11,000 for Covenant House of New Jersey, Madison High School’s “Sleep Out Team”—students and staff-- gave up their warm houses and soft beds for one night to identify with those who do not have any. Founded in 1989, Covenant House of N.J. is a shelter in Newark, focused on helping homeless and trafficked young people and getting them off the streets. For more than 25 years, it has been providing food, shelter, immediate crisis care, and other necessary services to homeless youths, giving them sanctuary, and subse-
quently hope. Today, there are approximately 30 Covenant Houses in the USA, Canada, and Latin America helping out homeless, runaway and trafficked youths. To date, Covenant House has aided approximately 70,000 young people. Tirelessly working to raise money for this organization, this year, Madison High School was one of the top teams to raise money for Covenant House. The proceeds raised went to items such as food, clothing, medicine, and blankets. The money will pay for heat and electricity in shelters. Simply by sleeping out for one night and raising money, this team demonstrated their empathy and willingness to help the homeless: Sleeping out so that other kids could discover the shelter and refuge that Covenant House brings to so many. For these homeless kids, the students of Madison High School are a very real solution to their problem. “The Covenant House Sleep Out Fundraiser is indicative of the type of caring and compassionate students that we have at Madison High School,” says Madison High continued on page 4