Harvard Extension students, alumni, and friends - thank you for taking part in the HESA Palentine's Week Supply Drive benefiting the Harvard Square Homeless Shelter. Below you will find the Amazon Wishlist to support and share the love with the unhoused community of Harvard Square. We are grateful for your gifts.
Thank you,
Kody Christiansen ‘23 [HESA Director of Communications | Vice Chair of HESA Events & Public Service Committee | PBHA | HSHS Student Director]
Maleen Fischer ‘22 [HESA Director of Events | Head of HESA Events & Public Service Committee | Harvard’s Global Day of Service Team Leader]
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Amazon Wishlist
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ABOUT HESA | Harvard Extension Student Association
https://hesa.extension.harvard.edu/
The Harvard Extension Student Association (HESA) is the governing organization that represents all Harvard Extension School students. HESA is responsible for advocating on behalf of graduate and undergraduate HES students before the Extension school's central administrators. HESA represents the students interest: whether by organizing events, communicating with Harvard administration, or sharing information and resources.
The HESA Events Committee under the direction of Chair Kody Christiansen, and with co-organizer Maleen Fischer, HESA Director of Events, are focused on bringing community and public service into the forefront of the work HESA does as a student organization. HESA is honored and proud to be working with the Phillips Brooks House Association and the Harvard Square Homeless Shelter on this important event.
ABOUT HSHS | Harvard Square Homeless Shelter
https://hshshelter.org/
1983.New Beginnings. On February 17th, 1983, the Harvard Square Homeless Shelter, then called the UniLu Shelter, opened its doors as the first homeless shelter in Harvard Square. In response to the much increased street population, four students from Harvard Divinity School and Harvard College, with the support of University Lutheran Church’s Pastor Fred Reisz, other Harvard Square ministers, and volunteers from the congregation, provided simple meals and sleeping space for about a dozen men and women in University Lutheran’s basement.
Although originally envisioned as an emergency response to a temporary situation, the long-term problem of homelessness remains unsolved and the doors to Harvard Square Homeless Shelter (HSHS) remain open. Every winter, HSHS has provided food, housing, and warmth for more than twenty homeless adults each night during the five coldest months of the year. Although the shelter is located in the basement of the University Lutheran Church and benefits from the generosity of its congregation, its programs and services are all non-religious.
2011. HSHS continues to have the most volunteers of any single organization on campus and to be the only student-run homeless shelter in the nation. We are working to change the latter, through, collaborating with groups of students from the University of Florida at Gainesville, Villanova, and Stanford to help start shelters there.
Today. HSHS is proud to work alongside Y2Y Harvard Square, a student-run homeless shelter for youth 18-24, founded by two HSHS alumni in 2012. Both shelters operate in Harvard Square – united in our missions, structure, and history.