UMKC confronts homelessness

Students at the University of Missouri- Kansas City may be going hungry today.

As part of its Hunger and Homelessness Awareness Week, the campus chapter of the NAACP is asking class-goers to skip a meal and drop what they would have spent into a collection bucket for Harvesters food pantry.

It’s not the group’s only effort this week to get the urban campus involved in aiding the city’s homeless population. Last night, residents from the City Union Mission shared their stories during a tearful panel discussion that revealed the “Faces of Homelessness.” 

Read their stories after the jump.