A group of 30 SMU undergraduates have raised S$64,000 in cash and in kind in a nine-month university-wide community service effort. The cash proceeds will be used to support underprivileged seniors under the Lions Befrienders Service Association’s (LBSA) outreach programmes. The in-kind donations – 2,500kg of food and necessities – were delivered to 170 households at Mei Ling Street under the care of the LBSA on Saturday, as part of a walkathon challenge. Some 505 SMU representatives, including students, faculty members and staff, took part in the 8km-walkathon capping off the university’s annual social project called the SMU Challenge. The walkathon also earned SMU a place in the Singapore Book of Records for the Largest Mass Walk Carrying Groceries, a record previously set by SMU students, faculty and staff in 2010 with 197 participants.