SFU business students have partnered with the non-profit Gather & Give organization to assist low-income families, reports the Burnaby NewsLeader. As part of an assignment for a project management class related to sustainability, the students will collect household items, such as pots and pans, kitchenware, toiletries, bedding, and other housewares. The newspaper said most people think about the environment when sustainability is discussed, but the students decided to focus on social sustainability instead. “Making sure kids get a good education, keeping the crime rate low, keeping people off the streets and living in homes, they kind of go hand in hand,” third-year student Aren Hanson said of the two types of sustainability. “If you have a good community and the kids are being brought up right then they’ll tend to be more environmentally conscious and also conscious of the people around them and other people in the community.”

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