Students Stop Homeless Sterotyping

I would like to commend your interest in the homeless. I appreciate your Homeless Action Committee updates and articles about people. Agenda is a welcome relief from more "traditional" newspapers.

If you are interested in high school students who are working for the homeless cause, Children for Children, a student club at Hurón High School, is sponsoring Homeless Awareness Day on May 8. We will have an assembly, with speakers and a skit performed by homeless people and high school students. There will be posters stating the facts of homelessness up all over Huron. Students will be able to donate to the Ann Arbor Shelter, Prospect Place and Salvation City, and will receive stickers showing that they donated. We will pass out newsletters about homelessness and what can be done about it.

The purpose of Homeless Awareness Day is to educate the Huron population about homelessness. The members of Children for Children have noticed extreme stereotypes about homeless people at Huron - including in our own minds. We are volunteering at Prospect Place to elimínate the stereotypes we have. On May 8, others will be able to get rid of theirs.

Jennifer Genung 

ANN ARBOR