Women of Sigma Delta Tau selling baked goods
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By Matty Schule, Staff Writer and Emmanouel Sofillas, Asst. Sports Editor
In honor of International Women’s Day on Friday March 8, the Alpha Pi Phi (APP) sorority hosted an event with various clubs and organizations on campus to help fundraise for The Rise Of Broken Women.
The Rise Of Broken Women is a charity organization which works to provide women and families in the homeless shelters of NYC necessary resources and tools to help them move up and out of the cycle of poverty.
“They donate essential necessities to homeless women like period products, and APP is selling yellow flowers for $2 to raise money for the organization” philanthropy chair of APP Chiara Giambroni said.
Giambroni is currently a junior at Manhattan College and helped organize and schedule the event alongside the many other clubs who participated.
“Chiara, our philanthropy chair, did a lot of the communication,” president of APP, Jamie Robbins, said. “ [She was] Emailing everyone, making sure everyone was confident and ready to be here today.”
Robbins noted that the initial idea for the fundraiser stemmed from APP’s treasurer Pamela Moleri.
“The idea came from our treasurer, Pam,” Robbins said. “She’s from Italy, and in Italy it’s a tradition that you give a woman a yellow flower on Women’s Day. We noticed that there weren’t too many other organizations on campus who really celebrated International Women’s day like that, so we thought it would be a great thing to bring to our campus.”
In Italy, yellow flowers are given to women as a sign of sisterhood, support, love, friendship and togetherness.
“This is something that we try to do yearly on Women’s Day, we try to get all the clubs together and give everyone the chance to really show some appreciation for and to the women in their lives,” Robbins said.
One of the fraternities on campus, Delta Kappa Epsilon (DKE), helped raise money with “Pie a DKE” where students could pay to shove a pie in the face a fraternity member. The other campus sorority, Sigma Delta Tau (SDT), was also helping to raise money through a bake sale of assorted desserts and cookies.
The Rainbow Jaspers also had a table set up and were raising money through selling playing cards, stickers and LGBTQIA+ flags and memorabilia. A member of the Rainbow Jaspers, Analia Santana, shared her thoughts on the importance of recognizing International Women’s Day through campus events like this.
“It’s important to celebrate women every single day because women are what bring life into this world,” Santana said. “For centuries, and still to this day, women face the brunt of so much injustice. On days like today, we have to uplift women and recognize all the hard work that they do.”
For those unable to attend APP’s International Women’s Day event this year on the quad and are interested in donating to The Rise of Broken Women, it’s never too late to help out.
“It’s really important we’re raising money here and I think it’s also something that’s very Lasallian and reflects the school’s mission to help those in need,” Santana said.