Students and staff at the University of Lethbridge were part of the Five Days for the Homeless event which was launched on March 14.

Samantha Gilbert, Jenny Corrigan, Austin Jenkins, Radek Bachorz and Jesse Smith were the five students who lived outside the U of L in a box for a week to collect donations for Wood’s Homes, a local organization that provides shelter for youth at risk.

“Our first day was pretty cold, but now it’s just windy,” said Samantha Gilbert, a fourth year neuroscience student with a minor in Spanish. We shouldn’t complain, we are in the middle of a chinook. It just gets cold at night.”
 The team co-ordinator, Reanna Foster says the donation goal this year is set high.
The day this event was launched, $3,000 was donated by Servus Credit Union, CGA and the U of L to kick-off the event.
Radek Bachorz, fifth year international management student, says they are trying to raise $12,000.
“All of us are cheering up each other. We are trying to fix our house, it almost blew away,” said Bachorz on the day of the kick-off.
The five students had to attend all their classes could not shower and could only eat and drink what was donated to them by other people.