Monday night, Campus Kitchen and the Kernodle Center for Service Learning and Community Engagement sponsored the Faces of Homelessness panel to raise awareness of an issue that affects about 11 percent of Alamance County.
The panel was organized by the National Coalition for the Homeless. The NCH runs panels similar to this one at other schools across the country. Three guest speakers came to discuss their experiences of homelessness.
One of the major themes: "Homelessness doesn't care about how much money you have, where you live, or about your race."
Each speaker discussed their lives and how their time without a home has impacted them.
Campus Kitchen Educational Team Co-coordinator Shayna Nash and the student coordinators of the event hoped that the panel would open student's eyes to the current problem of hunger and homelessness.
"Bringing people in who have overcame homelessness and have experienced it themselves provides students with a chance to see that this issue really does exist, and that we should go, take a stand, and try to help out as much as possible," Nash said.