By TAYLOR MORRIS, Student Reporter
Ginger Harrison is the catering director and office administrator of the Chartwells Food Service on campus and she is promoting a coat drive that is being sponsored by Chartwells.
The initiative is called One Warm Coat and is held by Chartwells every year. However, this is the first time that the Northwestern community is participating in the coat drive.
According to their website onewarmcoat.org, the organization made its start in 1992 with a Thanksgiving weekend coat drive at one location in San Francisco. Since then their status has grown to a national organization that supports over 3,000 coat drives a year.
Overall, the organization’s mission is to provide anyone in need with a warm coat, free of charge.
“We are hoping to get everyone involved…there are a lot of kids and adults that can’t afford to go get coats when it is cold.” Harrison said.
The coat drive will continue on throughout the month of March to the end of April.
According to Harrison, she feels that holding the coat drive in warmer weather may make people want to donate even more because they do not necessarily need them as much.
Additionally, Harrison’s main goal is to reach a full donation of 100 coats by the end of the coat drive.
For those who wish to donate any unwanted coats, there are donating stations in the Coronado Café, the Student Center, and Herod Hall near the registry office. At the end of April all coats that have been collected will be donated to the First Community Church in town.
Harrison wants any possible donators to know that financial donations are not being accepted on campus; however, if there is anyone out there that would like to go the extra mile they can go online to One Warm Coat’s website and make a donation to further help those in need.