Southwestern College students will gather Sunday,
Oct. 7, to package and deliver 1,000 bags of food for the Homecoming Hunger
Project. The event is being hosted by the service learning organizations at
Southwestern, which include Leadership, Discipleship, and Green Team. Students
from all athletic teams, student life, student government, performing arts, and
the service learning teams will be in attendance.
“I
am extremely excited about this service effort on campus. It is rare that
a college is able to rally so many students, faculty, and staff to be a part of
service work together,” says Lindsay Wilke, assistant director of Leadership.
The
packaged food will be used as supplements for the “Backpacks for Kids” program
at USD 465, which works with the Kansas Food Bank to provide food for the
weekends to children who have been identified as food insecure. There are
currently 81 children in the program and SC’s donation will supply all 81 with
food for three months worth of weekends. The bags of food will also include a
hand written letter from a college student as encouragement to the children who
will be receiving them.
Funding
for the event has been provided by a donation from Steve and Cathy Hamlin and a
contribution from each department participating. There was also a total of
$4,520 raised for the project. SC staff and faculty are providing plastic bags
for the event.
“The
Southwestern students have proven that they care about the issue of hunger and
are willing to act on their convictions. And by contributing funding and
support to the event, the institution as a whole is living out its commitment
to service,” said Wilke.
The
event will be held from 3 to 4 p.m., and the evening will end with the delivery
of food to USD 465 Superintendent J.K. Campbell and Winfield High School
food service director Robyn Bailey.
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