Founders Day Food Drive

For Wesley’s 137th Founders Day cel­e­bra­tion, the plan­ning com­mit­tee inte­grated a com­mu­nity ser­vice project as a demon­stra­tion of the College’s Methodist val­ues and his­tory of ser­vice to the area. Gro­cery bags were dis­trib­uted around cam­pus to fac­ulty, staff and stu­dents as well as area res­i­dents so that par­tic­i­pants could col­lect non-perishable food items to donate. Stu­dent ath­letes did their part by fill­ing two cam­pus vans with dona­tions they col­lected at the Super Fresh and Acme mar­kets in Dover on March 17. By the time the Food Bank picked up the College’s dona­tion, the Wes­ley com­mu­nity had col­lected 2,994 pounds of food that would ben­e­fit the reported 241,600 peo­ple who receive emer­gency food each year through the Food Bank of Delaware.

123 = ABC: In 1 Day, 20 Blocks in Down­town Dover Will Receive Over 300 Hours of Vol­un­teer Ser­vice Result­ing in A Beau­ti­ful Community.

On August 21, the incom­ing Class of 2014 will take to the streets as Wes­ley Col­lege part­ners up with the Dover Hous­ing Author­ity, the Cen­tral Delaware Habi­tat for Human­ity and the Office of Sen­a­tor Thomas Carper in one of the biggest clean-up projects the city of Dover has ever seen. The clean-up crew will con­sist of approx­i­mately 500 incom­ing fresh­men, as well as fac­ulty and staff, com­mu­nity mem­bers and return­ing stu­dent athletes.

The 123=ABC event is a one day com­mu­nity clean-up project focus­ing on improv­ing curb appeal and streetscape. Vol­un­teers will work on sev­eral streets within a 20 block radius in down­town Dover, pick­ing up trash, paint­ing curbs and plant­ing flow­ers and shrubs. Inter­ested in learn­ing more or becom­ing a vol­un­teer? Click here.

Help­ing Haiti

It did not take long for an earth­quake to change Haiti for­ever. It also did not take long for the Wes­ley Col­lege cam­pus to orga­nize. In response to the hor­ri­fy­ing cat­a­stro­phe, the Wes­ley com­mu­nity came together to demon­strate its com­pas­sion and support.

Over a two day period in Jan­u­ary, a total of 248 stu­dents con­tributed to the cause by fast­ing and giv­ing up 342 cafe­te­ria meals. The cost of those meals was donated by Ara­mark Food Ser­vice to the United Methodist Com­mit­tee on Relief (UMCOR), an agency that is cur­rently on the ground in Haiti, help­ing in the recov­ery of the coun­try from its dis­as­trous earthquake.

For sev­eral weeks in Jan­u­ary and Feb­ru­ary, the Res­i­dence Hall Asso­ci­a­tion (RHA), under the lead­er­ship of res­i­dent assis­tant Ash­leigh Maser, sold $1 hearts for dis­play around the cam­pus. These pro­ceeds directly sup­ported the Haiti Plunge Project’s Relief Fund for Haiti, which is help­ing to cre­ate sus­tain­able devel­op­ment through agri­cul­tural coop­er­a­tives in the moun­tains of Haiti’s cen­tral plateau. The RHA also held a cloth­ing drive and col­lected new and gen­tly used cloth­ing for the Red Cross in con­junc­tion with Sen­a­tor Thomas Carper’s office.