STORRS, CT — A dozen students enrolled at the University of Connecticut’s Avery Point campus are hitting the streets this weekend to help the homeless.
Calling it an alternative break, the students, hailing from across Connecticut, Vermont, and Massachusetts, were inspired by some of the community service work done by their counterparts in Storrs and chose to bring that spirit to Groton.
The group, all Husky Ambassadors, will be helping feed the homeless in Groton and New London on Friday, Jan. 23, and then joining other contemporaries in New London on Saturday for United Youth Build, a Habitat for Humanity project involving only 18-25-year-olds. The group will be working to complete a home they are building near Bates Woods.
Students involved in the volunteerism can be contacted for individual interviews. They include:
- Marissa Fahlberg, a Coastal Studies major from Massachusetts and the spirit behind the group;
- Amy Asmus, a BGS major from New Haven and assistant women’s basketball coach for Avery Point;
- Christian Fox, a Coastal Studies major from Vermont;
- Willythssa Pierre-Louis, a biology major from New London;
- Peter Tramont, a math major from Groton;
- Isabella Pilato of New London, an English major;
- Janice Welch of Guilford, a pre-teaching major;
- Michelle Slater of Newington, a Coastal Studies major who received a Leadership Scholarship from the University;
- Harrison Pollack, a pre-journalism major from Ridgefield;
- Morgan Fields of Lebanon, an animal sciences major;
- Jeanette Pace, a pre-pharmacy major from Shelton;
- Jillian Sipperly, a nursing major from Suffield;
- Michelle Biron of Thomaston, a psychology major;
- Rebecca Impellitteri of Uncasville, a pre-pharmacy major.
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