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College Students Touch 250,000 Lives
At a time when the news from campus too often concerns binge drinking
at parties, nearly 12,000 students belonging to SIFE—Students in
Free Enterprise—recently spent one Saturday lending a hand to the
less fortunate. Above, Angela Schrock, 19, of Northeastern Junior College
in Colorado, helps show a needy family how to get more for their money
at the grocery. In Colorado, students not only gave poor families groceries,
but also took them shopping and coached them on stretching food dollars.
In Georgia, students helped bankrupt people plan financial comebacks.
In Michigan, they tutored Native American teens on the fine points of
getting a job. In California, Kentucky and Ohio, they held career workshops.
In Missouri, South Carolina and Tennessee, they built Habitat for Humanity
houses. In Arizona and 10 other states, they ran food and clothing drives.
From California to Maine, they taught computer and money-management
workshops. All these projects were sponsored by Students in Free Enterprise,
active on 600 campuses.
Other SIFE projects included inspiring at-risk children to stay in school,
helping single parents explore career opportunities and encouraging
community members to vote. Rolling up their sleeves, SIFE teams cleaned
up parks, dugouts and playground equipment, raked leaves, planted flowers,
helped hurricane victims, erased graffiti, painted, sanded and weatherized
homes and shelters and virtually built homes from the ground up through
Habitat for Humanity. Working in soup kitchens and shelters, SIFE Teams
collected thousands of cans of food for food banks, collected and distributed
clothing, baby items, coats, books, bed linens and school supplies.
They taught AIDS awareness, the value of diversity and communication
with the deaf. What does this generation of college students want to
be known for? Making a difference in the lives of 250,000 people…..all
in a day’s work.
Celebrating its 25th anniversary in 2000, SIFE is an international,
non-profit organization founded in 1975. SIFE teams across the globe
conduct free enterprise educational outreach projects to better themselves,
their communities, and their countries. SIFE students take what they
are learning in the classroom and apply it to real working situations.
Learn more about SIFE
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