Several resident assistants cooked grilled cheese sandwiches in the Kinghorn Hall lobby the evening of Dec. 3 to raise money for Holiday Help – a program for a local shelter for victims of domestic violence.
The program helps give resources to residents of the Muncie A Better Way shelter in the form of a Christmas present, which will be wrapped and delivered to them.
The RAs sold each sandwich for $1, and all the proceeds will be spent on filling boxes with hygiene items, like shampoo and body wash. Residents of Kinghorn Hall will have the opportunity to help pack and wrap the boxes next week.
Morgan Tarlton, a junior speech pathology major, and Kenna Gibson, a junior architecture major, were among the RAs who planned this fundraiser.
Holiday Help is Kinghorn's hall-wide community service program, Tarlton said. Not only is this program a way to help Muncie residents who are in need, but it allows her to help educate her residents on different ways to help the community as well.
"We're trying to give back," Tarlton said. "Especially with the holidays so close."
Last year, the same fundraiser earned about $75, Tarlton said. This year, they are expecting – and hoping for – at least $60.
The RAs will take the money and purchase everything they can to fill the packages, she said. They also plan on contacting dentist offices and other businesses to try and get more donations as well.
While Katelyn Draper, a senior early childhood education and special education major and resident of Kinghorn Hall, isn’t an RA, she chose to help cook grilled cheese sandwiches, and did so last year, as well.
"It was pretty successful [last year] I think," Draper said. "And I'm happy to help, especially because Morgan asked me to."
Gibson wasn't an RA last year, but attended the Holiday Help events. After becoming an RA, she knew she wanted to help with the community service events Kinghorn Hall hosts.
Tarlton said she hopes many Kinghorn residents will help fill and wrap boxes next week. She says it's an activity that can bring students together and help them give back to those in need, but their level of involvement is up to them.
"Students can stop and do one box, or stay and wrap a lot," Tarlton said. "Either way helps a ton."
Their goal is at least 25 boxes this year, Tarlton said. When they are all filled and wrapped, the RAs will go together to deliver them to the A Better Way shelter.
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