Campus Connection

At 7:00 am on Thanksgiving Day, dozens of students, staff, and faculty volunteers from UMB will descend on nearby Booker T. Washington Middle School to begin an annual holiday tradition:  cooking nearly half a ton of turkey. 

Project Feast, a student organization started by students from the School of Medicine, plans to host its eighteenth annual Thanksgiving Dinner for homeless individuals in West Baltimore. 

The organization hopes that participants will get more than a great meal out of the event.  “We hope that the community, meaning the students and members of UMB and the folks that call this area of Baltimore home, can come together and be a family,” said Sarah Bui, a second-year medical student and one of the organizer’s of Project Feast.  “[W]e hope that events like this one will encourage neighbors from different walks of life to be friends.”

The organization also plans on distributing to the homeless clothing, toiletry, and other non-perishable goods that were donated by the UMB community.  

Bui credits all the volunteers for making the event possible.  “The students, faculty, and staff at UMB, as well as other community members, [sic] has been phenomenal,” she said.  “The kindness and dedication that they show through their actions is deeply appreciated.”

Persons interested in volunteering for Project Feast should contact Sarah Bui at sarahmbui@gmail.com or Lindsay Appel at appel.lindsay@gmail.com.  

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