By: The Daily Cardinal /The Daily Cardinal
- March 3, 2008
Clothing drive will be at Sellery Hall.
Beginning Monday, Sellery Hall will be home
to Wisconsin Student Public Interest Research Group’s clothing drive
for the Society of St. Vincent de Paul.
Collection bins
will be placed on each floor March 3-10 in the residence hall to
collect any clothing donations students can make, according to Samantha
Meyer, a UW-Madison sophomore and WISPIRG intern who organized the event.
Clothing
will be collected and distributed by St. Vincent de Paul, a charity
organization that operates several thrift stores in Madison as well as
a food pantry.
“They donate $15,000 worth of clothing each
year [to the needy] and they also come and pick up the clothes and
provide bins,” Meyers said of St. Vincent de Paul. “They’ve been really
cooperative and helpful [with the clothing drive].”
WISPIRG
interns working on the Hunger and Homelessness campaign each plan an
event to help those stricken by poverty, homelessness and hunger,
Meyers said.
“Other interns have planned other small events like an art sale, a fast and we’re going to have an event during Earth Week.”
The
clothing drive in Sellery is a “test run” for other drives across
campus, said Meyer, and, depending on the success, may lead to other
events in residence halls.
