Holiday food drive supports students
November 20, 2015
The Wood Center Food Pantry and UAF's Division of General Studies are teaming up on
a food drive to help students in need during the long holiday break.
This is the ninth annual Food Drive Challenge and the seventh annual Student Support
Services Food Box Collection. It will benefit some of the approximately 250 students
who have enrolled in UAF's Student Support Services program.
During the holiday, some of these students can find themselves without reliable income
for up to a month until the start of the next semester. Last year’s food boxes helped
14 families and more than 25 people, and even more have expressed a need for extra
food this holiday break.
The drive will collect as much food as possible to assemble in boxes for students
and their families by 5 p.m. Monday, Dec. 14.
View needed items and sign up to donate on the Google doc here. Any amount of money can also be donated for the purchase of perishable items such
as eggs, bread, butter and milk.
Boxes of copier-paper size or bigger are also needed to hold food for students.
Bring nonperishable food items, boxes and cash donations to the SSS office in 514
Gruening.
All extra nonperishable food will be donated to the Wood Center Food Pantry to help
other UAF students in need.
SSS is a federally funded program that assists first-generation college students,
students with documented disabilities and low-income students. The Division of General
Studies comprises the SSS, Academic Advising Center, Honors Program, Upward Bound,
Undergraduate Research and Scholarly Activity office, and Testing Services.
If you have any questions, please contact Kate Wilsey at 474-6844 or kmwilsey@alaska.edu, and visit http://bit.ly/SSSFoodDrive2015 to sign up.
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