{"id":21426,"date":"2013-03-13T09:43:43","date_gmt":"2013-03-13T14:43:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/?p=21426"},"modified":"2013-03-13T09:46:07","modified_gmt":"2013-03-13T14:46:07","slug":"students-make-sidewalk-home-to-help-homeless","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/2013\/03\/students-make-sidewalk-home-to-help-homeless\/","title":{"rendered":"Students make sidewalk home to help homeless"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><object width=\"560\" height=\"315\" data=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/DLsODS3mKcE?hl=en_GB&amp;version=3\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/DLsODS3mKcE?hl=en_GB&amp;version=3\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><\/object><\/p>\n<p>A group of Brock students has taken up residence on a sidewalk in front of Taro Hall in an effort to raise money and food donations for the local food bank.<\/p>\n<p>Called <a title=\"5 Days for the Homeless\" href=\"http:\/\/5days.ca\/\" target=\"_blank\">5 Days for the Homeless,<\/a> the campaign has students living outside for five days &#8211; eating, studying and sleeping &#8211; in an effort to draw attention to poverty and homelessness in Niagara and beyond.<\/p>\n<p>The group of 20 students has raised $2,000 so far for <a title=\"Community Care of St. Catharines and Thorold\" href=\"http:\/\/www.communitycarestca.ca\/\" target=\"_blank\">Community Care of St. Catharines and Thorold.<\/a> The goal is to collect $5,000 by the time the students roll up their sleeping bags and temporary digs on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>Students are still attending class during the drive.<\/p>\n<p>In total, 26 universities throughout Canada are participating in the national campaign. Since its inception in 2005, 5 Days for the Homeless has raised more than $975,000 for the cause.<\/p>\n<p>This year, participating universities hope to reach the $1-million mark.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Cogeco on YouTube\" href=\"http:\/\/youtu.be\/DLsODS3mKcE\" target=\"_blank\">Watch the video to learn more about Brock&#8217;s edition of the campaign. <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A group of Brock students has taken up residence on a sidewalk in front of Taro Hall in an effort to raise money and food donations for the local food bank.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[54],"tags":[875,564,560],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21426"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21426"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21426\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21428,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21426\/revisions\/21428"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21426"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21426"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21426"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}