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Project Cahir members working to help peers in need

Project Cahir, a student organization committed to changing the poverty landscape in local communities, is working to raise funds to help students in need purchase food, toiletries and textbooks. 

The Office of Student Aid estimates that 10 percent of students enrolled at Penn State's University Park campus are considered low-income students, and the organization's goal is to raise $5,000.

All funds raised will be directly used to help students purchase food and toiletry items, rent course textbooks and provide scholarships for students who exhibit emergency financial need in order to graduate.

"The students of Project Cahir believe that it is important that all students have access to higher education and that having to worry about where their next meal will come from is a concern no student should have to endure," Natasha Bailey, a member of Project Cahir, said.

Project Cahir's campaign runs through Dec. 10. For more information, visit https://pennstate.useed.net/projects/114/home.

Last Updated December 3, 2014