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CU raises awareness of homeless through Cardboard Nation Cardboard Nation raised over $1,500 for Green River Ministries, the homeless shelter in Taylor County Click on headline for complete story with photo(s) By Lucas Pennington News from Campbellsville University CAMPBELLSVILLE, KY - For one evening, Campbellsville University students gave up their phones, laptops and iPods to experience homelessness through Cardboard Nation, the fifth annual event sponsored by Campbellsville University's Social Workers In Touch Can Help (SWITCH) club. Cardboard Nation, held recently on CU's Stapp Lawn, is meant to provide the most realistic yet safe homeless living experience possible. Participants slept the night in a cardboard box, as the homeless do, in order to raise awareness and funds for the homeless. The SWITCH club raised over $1,500, which goes to Green River Ministries, the local homeless shelter in Taylor County. "I always thought you could only be homeless if you lived in a big city," Chellsey Phillips, a senior at CU from Fort Knox, KY, and president of the SWITCH club, said. "When I first got involved, I looked up statistics about our Kentucky homeless population and it opened my eyes to how homelessness could happen to anyone at any time. "At Cardboard Nation you realize that it's like living in a different country for a night because you are just not used to this population's culture. You don't have access to the normal living commodities, you cannot reach in the fridge whenever you want, it's cold but no one cares that you're freezing, you do not have a phone or other commodities, and you are shocked that someone lives like this every night and under much worse conditions. "Cardboard Nation takes place in a safe, controlled, supervised environment, but homelessness does not; no one pays attention to the needs or well-being of the homeless," Phillips said. Dr. Candace Hansford, associate professor of social work, said, "I am so proud of all the hard work and dedication of the social work students putting Cardboard Nation together to bring awareness of homelessness in the rural regions. It is definitely here in Taylor County and other rural areas more than we realize." Green River Ministries is located at 55 Clem Haskins Blvd., Campbellsville, KY. Contact: Campbellsville University's Carver School of Social Work at (270) 789-5049. This story was posted on 2012-11-13 06:29:49
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