By Kaylea Brown, student reporter
A donation drive benefitting the Campus Cabinet Food Pantry is taking place from Sept. 21 to Oct. 5 across the Northwestern campus in Alva.
The drive came out of an idea for a coronavirus-safe community service project assignment for Kaylyn Hansen’s habitudes class.
While students are unable to enter nursing homes and elementary schools, a drive accepting both food and hygiene products is a safe way to give back to an organization that helps the school, event organizers said.
The group consists of four students: Whitney Blanchard, Kaylin Blatchford, Kaylea Brown and Lizzy Webster.
They said it is important that the Campus Cabinet receives donations so that it can continue to assist NWOSU students and employees.
In preparation for the drive, the girls have been reaching out to businesses in and around Alva, talking to their teachers, creating posters to hang up around campus and designing informational graphics for social media.
In addition to getting the essentials of the drive ready, they also came up with a way to build incentive for students in Ranger Connection classes.
The class with the most donations will get either pizza or donuts for winning the competition.
The Campus Cabinet is available for NWOSU employees and students who are in need of assistance.
At this time, it is in need of many different food and hygiene items, officials said.
The items the cabinet needs the most are twin (XL) sheets.
Other items are desperately needed as well, officials said.
No donation is too small for an organization that assists students and employees of NWOSU as much as the Campus Cabinet does, officials said.
Donation drop-off locations are in many places across campus, including the entrance to the library and all of the residence halls.
Event organizers said they are encouraging students to donate supplies if they are able to do so.