Written by: Guethshina Altena/Contributing Writer
FIU College of Law and the Catholic Law Student Association are hosting their second annual Back-to-School Supplies Drive for underprivileged children.
Students are encouraged to participate by donating school supplies, and to drop them off at the FIU Law Library. The library is located across the Wellness and Recreation Center in the College of Law Rafael Diaz Balart Hall.
The student association has partnered with New Life Transitional Housing, a Catholic charity that provides services to homeless families with children 18 and under. School supplies collected will be donated to kids in a homeless shelter, according to Reginald Guillaume, CALSA community outreach officer.
Children who benefit from the drive are elementary school, middle school and high school students. School supplies needed include, but are not limited to: crayons, pencil crayons, glue, erasers, sharpeners, scissors, markers, highlighters, rulers and calculators.
Donating to people in need through the supplies drive should be a good enough reason for the FIU community to participate, said Guillaume. Communities have the responsibility to help each other and to lend a hand to the underprivileged, he said.
Guillaume said the students do not have materials to work properly at school and that that can be stressful for them.
“Those children deserve to at least be able to go to school and have the resources that they need to work successfully,” Guillaume said. “With the school supplies drive, CALSA is hoping to take this burden off their shoulders.”
CALSA is a student organization that provides College of Law students networking opportunities with Catholic professionals in the legal field. The organization encourages dialogue on legal issues in the context of the Catholic faith, and it emphasizes the existence of Catholic law students and faculty in the College of Law.
Students should participate in the drive because it is a great cause, said Marlon Velez, secretary of CALSA. Velez said that collecting school supplies will help students at the University to make a difference in the life of many homeless children.
He also said that the drive is also a great opportunity for students to familiarize themselves with the FIU Law Library. The library is open to any student with a Panther ID. Dropping of school supplies, students can see the setting of the library.
Velez encourages students who have ideas, questions or comments to contact CALSA. The drive will end Friday, Oct. 9, and it will be open during library operating hours, which are Monday to Thursday from 7:30 a.m. to 11 p.m. and Friday from 7:30 a.m. to 8 p.m.
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