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FNU Community Participates in MLK Day of Service
Greater Philadelphia Diaper Bank. The Greater Philadelphia Diaper Bank provides diapers, menstrual products, adult incontinence products, and formula to those in need in the Greater Philadelphia area.
- Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Frontier Nursing University’s (FNU) Office of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) encouraged community members to participate in the MLK Day of Service Challenge. MLK Day, honoring Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr., is an official day of service and celebrates the civil rights leader’s life and legacy. FNU community members were encouraged to participate in community service with friends and family, then share their service hours and pictures with the Office of DEI.
Here are some of the ways community members gave back to their communities:
• Dr. Paula Alexander-Delpech, Chief Diversity and Inclusion Officer, spent the day sorting food for Feeding South Florida. The group she was assigned to sorted 12,000 lbs of food, equating to approximately 95 meals for families.
• FNU faculty member Dr. Doreen Thomas-Payne provided service to her community with her son Jared, sorority sisters, and the brothers of Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Inc. Dr. Thomas-Payne belongs to Chi Eta Phi Sorority, Inc., a professional nursing sorority. Their mission is to provide “service to humanity.” Her chapter’s (Theta Chapter) service project was to collect and donate diapers to the
• FNU Diversity and Inclusion Coordinator Chris Turley packed canned goods for the Amen House in Georgetown, Ky. Part of their vision is, “We envision a hunger-free Scott County where food rescue is second nature to every grocery, restaurant, farmer and gardener; where local businesses, churches, organizations, and families fight hunger by sharing their resources through food or cash donations.”
• FNU faculty member Dr. Kendra Faucett and her daughter Violet joined FNU Chief Operations Officer Shelley Aldridge and her daughter Josie in participating in the annual MLK Day March in downtown Lexington, Kentucky.
