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| Students serve up meals for the needy this holiday |
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| UCLA’s Mobile Clinic Project works hard even on Thanksgiving to provide hot food to L.A.’s homeless |
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| By Ben Thaler (Daily Bruin Contributor) |
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 UCLA students joined a dozen volunteers who served meat entrees, fresh salad, La Brea bakery bread and hot soup to hundreds of homeless people lined up at the Hollywood intersection of Sycamore Avenue and Romaine Street over Thanksgiving break.
This quiet, industrial street corner attracts volunteers and long lines of homeless people every night from 6 to 8 as a result of the partnership between the UCLA Mobile Clinic Project and the Greater West Hollywood Food Coalition, which has been has been feeding the homeless of the Hollywood region nightly since 1987. The coalition joined forces six years ago with UCLA's Mobile Clinic Project in an effort to get students involved. Daily Bruin 11/27/06 |
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| Students mobilize clinical health services |
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| By Sarah Winter (Daily Bruin Reporter) |
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 Some ask for vitamins, others seek a medical exam, and still others look for a friendly ear to listen to their troubles.
Bringing an array of health concerns, members of the homeless and low-income population of West Hollywood come to Mobile Clinic, a weekly drop-in health service run by UCLA students.
In the fading evening light, undergraduate and medical school students cheerfully dole out socks, hygiene kits and vitamin packets to those who just want to stop by. Daily Bruin 11/07/06 |
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| Mobile Clinic takes health to heart |
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| Project delivers free health care and a listening ear to homeless |
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| By Jessica Chung (Daily Bruin Reporter) |
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 A white van of medical supplies pulls up to the corner of Sycamore Avenue and Romaine Street on Wednesday evening. Within an hour, the sidewalk is transformed into a makeshift clinic, complete with two exam rooms set up from tarps and army cots, and three tables to hold medical files, provide referrals, and distribute free hygiene kits.
The UCLA Mobile Clinic is open for service. Daily Bruin 10/24/03 |
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| On the unglamorous sidewalks of Hollywood's back streets,
a group of UCLA students is dedicated to making
a difference in the lives of the homeless |
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| By David Greenwald |
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 The man known on the street as Fats sits splay-legged on a folding chair in the middle of a bleak Hollywood sidewalk. Two buttons of his shirt have popped open across his ample belly, which spills over the rim of his dingy pants. He is 43 but looks older, with close-cropped black hair, enormous arms and a broad, gregarious face. Crouching in front of him on the hard concrete, a UCLA student volunteer, clean and fresh and neatly dressed, is tenderly washing and massaging his huge feet as they soak in a dishpan filled with soapy water. “This ain’t an act,” says Fats, looking up and down the sidewalk at the dozen or more homeless men and women who have gathered for the UCLA Mobile Clinic. “I don’t think they have a school that can teach this sort of thing. Being out here with us, it’s just something these young people have in their hearts.” UCLA Magazine Fall 2003 |
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| Mobile clinic could provide homeless with health care |
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| Medical students raise funds to begin project at West Hollywood food coalition |
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| By Jaime Wilson-Chiru (Daily Bruin Contributor) |
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| "Getting health care is a huge problem for the homeless. They themselves feel unwelcome to primary care facilities. They wait for a problem to become far too severe, something that could have been prevented," Peng said. Daily Bruin 06/08/00 |
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