Howard University’s Office of the Dean of the Chapel recently hosted the gift-wrapping party for its 22nd annual Angel Tree project. The Angel Tree project is one of many servant-leadership opportunities offered by the university’s chapel. Each holiday season, the program collects toys, gifts, and donations from community members and on-campus organizations and grants everything to public schools and homeless shelters in Washington, D.C. The university proclaimed in a recent post that the committee and other volunteers wrapped over 400 gifts this year. The wrapping party is held after the window for donations has closed, and community members come together to wrap the gifts before sending them to the school and shelters for the children. This year’s Angel Tree project coordinators were the community service co-chairs of the Chapel Assistants. They were Jada Miligan, a senior computer information systems major from Atlanta, and Courteney Charles, a senior math major from...
