Andrew Zaleski, a member of Loyola College in Maryland’s Class of 2011, recently had an essay published in Chicken Soup for the Soul—Campus Chronicles: 101 Inspirational, Supportive, and Humorous Stories about Life in College.

Zaleski’s contribution, “A Place to Call Home,” chronicles his experiences working for Loyola’s Care-A-Van program during the summer of 2008. Care-A-Van, established in 1991, is a mobile meal program that serves approximately 75 Baltimoreans who are poor and/or homeless each week. Zaleski’s story documents a life-changing friendship he established with Eartle, a man he met in Baltimore’s “Tent City.”

“Befriending Eartle was both powerful and humbling,” said Zaleski, an English major from Coatesville, Pa., who serves as managing editor and copy chief of Loyola’s student newspaper, The Greyhound. “It not only allowed me to see a side of Baltimore I usually held at a distance, but it also reaffirmed my own appreciation of the opportunities I’ve been given.”

Zaleski is a graduate of Devon Preparatory School. He had been published previously in The Urbanite, a Baltimore magazine, as well as Loyola’s literary journals.

Chicken Soup for the Soul: Campus Chronicles joins more than 100 other Chicken Soup volumes and is available at major bookstores and online retailers.