ETSU students are showing up for their community in the wake of Hurricane Helene. Homecoming week has provided opportunities for students to give blood, donate items for hygiene kits and flood buckets, write letters of love to first responders and survivors, receive disaster relief volunteer training and more.
Homecoming efforts have been spearheaded by ETSU's Student Government Association, who are working very closely with the ETSU Office of Leadership and Civic Engagement and other campus partners.Â
ETSU held their annual canned food drive as part of homecoming week on Wednesday.Â
By LAKEN GREENE
lgreene@sixriversmedia.com
ETSU held their annual canned food drive as part of homecoming week on Wednesday.Â
By LAKEN GREENE
lgreene@sixriversmedia.com
All canned goods were donated to Second Harvest Food Bank of Northeast Tennessee, who are distributing them to those affected by Hurricane Helene.Â
By LAKEN GREENE
lgreene@sixriversmedia.com
This year's homecoming week has been dedicated to aiding the communities impacted by Helene.Â
By LAKEN GREENE
lgreene@sixriversmedia.com
Students donated enough canned goods to fill two of Second Harvest's semi-trucks.Â
By LAKEN GREENE
lgreene@sixriversmedia.com
ETSU students are showing up for their community in the wake of Hurricane Helene. Homecoming week has provided opportunities for students to give blood, donate items for hygiene kits and flood buckets, write letters of love to first responders and survivors, receive disaster relief volunteer training and more.
Homecoming efforts have been spearheaded by ETSU's Student Government Association, who are working very closely with the ETSU Office of Leadership and Civic Engagement and other campus partners.Â
Despite classes being canceled through Friday, ETSU still celebrated homecoming week with their annual canned food drive Wednesday.
All day Wednesday, students from different ETSU organizations dropped off canned goods at the Basler Center for Physical Activity. Second Harvest Food Bank of Northeast Tennessee picked up the donations and will be dispersing them to those affected by Hurricane Helene.
Spearheaded by the ETSU Student Government Association, who are working very closely with the ETSU Office of Leadership and Civic Engagement and other campus partners, this year’s homecoming week has been dedicated to aiding the communities impacted by Helene.
Already, homecoming week has provided opportunities for students to give blood, donate items for hygiene kits and flood buckets, write letters of love to first responders and survivors, receive disaster relief volunteer training and more.
Not only is the university offering ample opportunities to get involved, but its students are showing up in substantial numbers to support the community–something SGA’s Secretary of State Skylar Brackett is extremely proud of.
“We’ve already broken some records,†Brackett said. “We had 674 people donate blood and over 1,000 letters of love written to first responders (and survivors).â€
When Second Harvest Food Bank came to pick up the canned goods Wednesday afternoon, Brackett said that the contributions from the ETSU community filled two semi-trucks.
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