UIC SAAC 'Sparks' Help for the Homeless

CHICAGO - The UIC Student Athlete Advisory Committee (SAAC) has been doing good in the Chicago area this holiday season. SAAC created a program called SPARK (Students Performing Acts of Random Kindness) to help feed the city's homeless.

Led by Mitch Granger of the men's tennis team, the group has held two events where they prepared meals for the homeless. In their most recent event, SPARK recruited 19 UIC students to bag lunches that fed 25 homeless men and women. The student-athlete organization will continue handing out bagged lunches to the homeless every week for the rest of the year.

SPARK has also partnered with the Chicago Church of Christ in collecting winter clothes for a coat drive. The group is currently collecting coats, hats and gloves for the drive, which will be held on Dec. 27 at a homeless shelter near campus.

**Release courtesy of UIC Athletic Communications.