SAIU is volunteering for Mother Hubbard’s Cupboard (MHC).  MHC is a food pantry whose mission is to provide healthful, wholesome foods to people in need, as well as nutrition and gardening education.  They provide our services in ways that build community while enhancing the dignity, respect, and self-care of all involved.

SAIU members go through the pantry, check all the labels on items, and dispose of anything that is past its expiration date.  MHC is located at 1010 S Walnut St, Bloomington IN. We’ll be volunteering from 2PM to 4PM. See you there!

SAIU is volunteering for the Midwest Pages to Prisoners Project, an all-volunteer effort to encourage self-education among the US prison population by providing free reading materials on request.  The program’s participants are interested in prison serving the purpose of rehabilitation rather than punishment, and also recognize that prison libraries are often understocked and have limited availability.

Volunteers receive letters from prisoners, verify a prisoner’s current incarceration status, retrieve books from shelves, pack them, and also keep track of requests and books in the project’s database.  SAIU will be volunteering the first and third Sunday of each month this semester from 2 PM to 5 PM,  Pages to Prisoners is located at 118 S Rogers St, Suite #2, Bloomington IN, 47404, just off Kirkwood. See you there!

Come join us for tea and discussion in the Walnut room in the IMU this week. Russell’s Tea Parties are SAIU’s periodic general-purpose casual meetups, named after Bertrand Russell’s ‘teapot’ thought experiment, his argument that the burden of proof in supernatural claims lies with the person making the claim.

Come, drink tea, tell us about your religious and non-religious experiences, start a friendly debate, discuss current events, find other members with common interests, start a group project, or even go totally off-topic for a while.