Sign up for the Fall 2007 YHHAP Fast!
Take
advantage of your only chance this semester to use
your meal swipes to alleviate hunger and
homelessness!
The Fall 2007 Fast will be on Thursday, November 15th.
Please
select one of the following
links:
1. Log
in to Student Information Systems (SIS)
Student Information Systems (SIS) is the same website that we use to
check our
grades and bursar bills.
Please
click this link to
open SIS in another window to start the signup process.
Log in
using your NetID.
(If you must enter the URL manually, it is
<http://www.yale.edu/sis/>.)
2. Click
on:
Dining System
In the SIS menu, it's the 6th option
from the top (between
"Financial Aid" and "Commencement").
3.
Click
on:
The Yale Hunger and Homelessness Action Project
This
is the topmost menu option.
4.
Click
“Yes, I Want to Participate in the YHHAP Fast” and
“Submit.”
You’re done! You should receive a message
confirming your
participation in the Fast.
Thank
you
so much for participating in the YHHAP Fast! Please
encourage your
friends to join you so that we will can provide as much support to
charity as
possible. Your participation is very important to local
charities such as
Harmony Place, which derives its entire operating budget from the Fast.
If you have comments or concerns about the Fast, please email
eliza.schafler@yale.edu
or jane.levy@yale.edu.
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A Brief History of the YHHAP Fast
The
Yale
Hunger and Homelessness Action Project (YHHAP) Fast has been a Yale
tradition
since 1974. Beginning as the Annual "Fast Against World
Hunger," the YHHAP Fast has developed into a twice-annual campus-wide
fundraiser that benefits local, national, and international
organizations. Through an arrangement with Yale Dining
Services, students
are given the option to donate the cost of food from their meal swipes
to
charity once per semester. In the fall of 2005, students
helped raise
more than $8,000. Charities that have benefited from past
YHHAP Fasts
include: the Life Haven family shelter, the
Downtown Evening
Soup Kitchen, the St. Thomas
More Soup Kitchen, Harmony
Place, Care International, Mercy
Corps, National Student
Partnerships, Inside at Night, American
Jewish World Service
Sudan Relief & Advocacy Fund, The Phoenix
of New Orleans, Gardens
for Health International, Rhodopian Orphanage,
Justice for
Children International, Fellowship Place,
Yale College Tsunami
Relief Fund, and Asian Human Services, Inc.
For more
information about YHHAP, please visit our website at http://www.yale.edu/yhhap/.
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1.
What’s
YHHAP?
The Yale Hunger and Homelessness Action Project (YHHAP) is
the campus
umbrella organization that coordinates student efforts to alleviate
hunger and
homelessness. YHHAP is composed of ten projects, including: Harmony
Place,
a community center run cooperatively by the homeless and students; BRED
(Bringing Relief Every Day), which delivers extra food from
dining halls to
local community centers; Respect Line, a political
advocacy group
composed of the homeless, students, and concerned citizens; DESK,
a
student group that coordinates volunteering for the Downtown Evening
Soup
Kitchen; and a student chapter of New Haven Cares,
a city-wide voucher
program that provides an alternative way of giving outside of
cash. For
more information about YHHAP, please visit our website at http://www.yale.edu/yhhap/.
2.
Why
is this event a “Fast”?
YHHAP encourages students to fast in solidarity from sunrise to sundown
with
those who cannot secure basic needs such as food and shelter for
themselves. Abstention from food, however, is not required of
Fast
participants. By opting out of their dining plans, students
are forgoing
meals for charity, which is where the concept of the
“Fast” was
derived.
3.
If
I participate in the Fast, where will I eat on Thursday?
There are several options for students participating in the
Fast. You can buy a ticket to the delicious Pan-Asian dinner,
which will be held that evening in Dwight Hall! Many
other students participate in groups with their friends and go out for
dinner
together on Thursday night at local restaurants. A more
cost-effective
and perhaps more enjoyable option is to cook dinner with your friends
in your
college’s kitchen. And finally, we again encourage
students who
would like to fast in solidarity with those without food to do so from
sunrise
to sundown.
4.
What
if I forget about the Fast and try to swipe on Thursday?
That’s
fine! Dining Services will actually deactivate your meal plan
on
Thursday, so swiping in won’t work. Also,
we’re providing an
optional reminder service. If you give us your email, we’ll
remind you
about the Fast on Wednesday. If you are interested in
receiving a
reminder, please send an email to eliza.schafler@yale.edu.
5.
Can
I donate fewer than all of my meals on November 15, 2007?
Unfortunately, the sign up mechanism that we have arranged with Yale
Dining
Services does not permit the donation of fewer than all of a student's
meal
swipes on Thursday. If you are particularly concerned about
missing meals
on Thursday, we do accept cash donations.
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Contact
Us
If
you have any questions about the YHHAP Fast or would like to help with
the
Fall 2007 Fast, please contact eliza.schafler@yale.edu
or jane.levy@yale.edu.
For more
general information about YHHAP, please visit our website at http://www.yale.edu/yhhap/.