Little Lobo Holiday Wish Fund Created to Help UNM Student Paren
November 13, 2023 - Dorene DiNaro
The Dean of Students Office and the UNM Children’s Campus are sponsoring a Little Lobo Holiday Wish Fund this winter to help bring joy to some of our student parents this holiday season. The goal is to raise $10,000 to provide 100 Lobo families with $100 gift cards.
Student parents make up about 22% of college campus populations nationwide. Many study parents make sacrifices to support themselves and their family through the financial aid and loans they receive, along with the hours they work when not in class or with their children. The Little Lobo Holiday Wish Fund aims to ease the burden some of our UNM student parents may feel this time of year.
“Little Lobos was started to honor and support all of our students who are also parents and managing two extremely important jobs,” Nasha Torrez, J.D. UNM dean of students, said. “My mom was a single mom who got her Master’s at UNM while raising my sister and I, I know first-hand what a huge difference this will make in showing some love to all the children who cheer on their parents as they work to advance the family through continued education.”
The University of New Mexico supports its student parents via various services including childcare at the UNM Children’s Campus; and lactation stations, family-friendly computer pods, student-led workshops, SNAP application assistance and free counseling and confidential advisory through the Women’s Resource Center.
