This past week and this upcoming weekend, we have been hosting extra events as our local part of National Hunger and Homelessness Awareness Week. We have called our local campaign #END, looking to END hunger and Homelessness in our neighborhoods and cities. The Macon County Continuum of Care, Advisory Committee spearheaded the planning of this year's events. November 14 was Box City on the Campus of Millikin University. Millkin Students and members of area congregation's youth groups joined together to learn and in a small way, experience a night of homelessness. November 19, individuals were taken on a different type of trolley tour of the city, heading past many of the agencies which work with hunger and homelessness issues on a daily basis. Members of our community who had been homeless and now are successfully on the other side shared their stories. This weekend, a young man as put together a food drive on the west side of town to serve as his Eagle Scout project.
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