Tag: Charity

Student group FEDZ gives back to the community

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( Photo / Contributed ) Earle-Lynch presents check to Latasha Howard, CEO of Pike County Boys and Girls Club and surrounding counties. PJ Heath Staff Writer Troy University global business student Roberto “Casanova” Earle-Lynch established FEDZ, a social event and promotion group in 2018. He and his co-founder Kadarvis Flowers created the group to help promote more organizations and to help people find fun and entertaining things to do in Troy. Earle-Lynch is a full-time student at Troy and is involved in nine different organizations on campus. He is also…

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Humbled Hearts offers scholarships, leadership positions

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Ayanna Williams Staff Writer Troy University’s chapter of the non-profit community service organization Humbled Hearts Inc. participates in lots of community service on and off-campus. The university chapter was founded in 2019 and is advised by Dr. Dana Wilson. Humbled Hearts is a service and wellness foundation and its motto is “It takes a humbled heart to serve.” “What I enjoy the most about Humbled Hearts is how it is an open organization for anyone to join,” said Alexis Bayles, chapter president and senior exercise science major from Birmingham, Alabama.…

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AKA supports mental health awareness through charity walk

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Abhigya Ghimire Staff Writer A journey of 1,000 miles begins with a single step, and on Saturday, April 14, the Mu Alpha Chapter of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority raised mental health awareness by organizing a 2-mile charity walk for the cause. The event, “NAMI Walks” for the National Alliance for Mental Illness (NAMI), was free for the public and held at the campus track. “A lot of people think that mental illness is just like ups and downs and heartbreaks and emotional effects, but mental illness is also eating disorder,…

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Rotaract Club seeks to provide aid

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Pradyot Sharma Staff Writer The Rotaract Club has collaborated with Water Is Life, an organization with “a mission to provide clean water, sanitation and hygiene programs to schools and villages in need,” according to its website. “We are a partnership of Rotary International in the university level, and the main goal of it is service above self,” said Indiana Poret, a senior social science and pre-law major from Nice, France, and president of the Rotaract Club. Rotary International is an international service club with a membership of over 1.2 million…

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