Good Samaritan Greeks

Sometimes Greeks get a bad reputation. Fraternity and sorority men and women are stereotyped as people who drink and party all the time. Although, this is a very unfair statement to make considering the many good things that they do as a part of these organizations. Every individual Greek organization has its own national philanthropy, which each chapter supports every year through school and neighborhood fundraisers, etc. to earn money towards it.

As a sister of the Zeta Gamma chapter of Phi Sigma Sigma at West Chester University, I am proud to say that we raise thousands of dollars every year toward our philanthropy, The National Kidney Foundation. I also found another blog posted by the Phi Sigma Sigma Foundation about the NKF Walk that numerous Phi Sig girls participated in found at http://phisigmasigmafoundation.blogspot.com/2007/11/delta-sigma-participates-in-nkf-walk.html. This foundation is extremely important to us, so as a chapter we have fundraisers and events going on year round to support it.

My chapter at West Chester does a Rock-A-Thon twice a year where we literally take turns rocking in rocking chairs outside of a local pizza place for 48 hours straight. There we collect donations from passersby in addition to selling baked goods to profit our cause. Like my organization, all fraternities and sororities have their own specific foundation or cause that they support as well.

At West Chester, all of the Greek organizations come together and support Camp Dreamcatcher, which is a camp for children affected or effected with HIV and AIDS, http://www.campdreamcatcher.org/. Camp Dreamcatcher runs year long programs for these children, but Greek Life at West Chester specifically earns money for a week of camp for each of these children. The money we collect through going canning in different cities or any other projects we plan goes to sending these children to a week of camp for free. In addition we can become camp counselors during this week and interact with all of the kids to make sure that week is one of the most enjoyable weeks of their life. I have heard many stories about the children and how they loe the camp so much they don't want to leave when the week is over. This really touches my heart and makes me feel proud to be part of an organization that is supporting it.