Owens Community College and Bowling Green State University students will spend a night under the stars to
raise homeless awareness as part of Owens’ sixth annual Sleep Out for the Homeless Tent City on
Thursday.
Beginning at 4 p.m., students will spend 17 consecutive hours camping out on the college’s courtyard lawn
south of Health Technologies Hall on the Perrysburg Township campus. The goal is to make more people
aware of homelessness occurring in the surrounding communities and to collect basic snack food items to
benefit Rainbow Area Youth in Toledo.
The event will conclude at 9 a.m. on Friday.
"Homelessness does not discriminate and can happen to anyone at anytime," said Nicole Lance,
who is a student activities assistant at Owens, adviser for the Raising Awareness Club, and a student at
BGSU.
Students and community members are encouraged to show their support by dropping off snack food items such
as chips, crackers, animal crackers, popcorn, pretzels, Pop-Tarts, granola bars, water, pop and juices
boxes, as well as plastic utensils and paper/plastic cups and plates.
Rainbow Area Youth’s goal is to is to help prevent the spread of HIV and reduce the rate of
self-destructive behaviors, including self-mutilation, drug abuse and suicide in the gay youth
population.
The ent city is being coordinated by the college’s Raising Awareness Club and the Gay-Straight Alliance
Club. For more information about making a donation, call (567) 661-2569.