Sinclair Students Care is accepting donations for its 2nd Annual Food and Clothing Drive.
“We accept scarves, pants, shirts, jackets, gloves, hats, canned-goods, non-perishable food, dental hygiene products,” Frank Browning, president of the Student Government Association said. “Basically anything that you can give will go to the homeless of Dayton.”
He said donations are currently being accepted now until the end of the semester.
They will be accepted in the Student Leadership Development office in Building 8, Room 025 and in the Honors office in Building 10, Room 339.
He said donations will go to Homefull, St. Vincent De Paul, the Food Pantry of Dayton and the House of Bread.
Browning said donating is a significant way to assist the Dayton community.
“You have people that need help and we’re students looking to help people,” he said. “It goes hand-in-hand. The city of Dayton has a problem—do you expect students to wait around and get a degree? — Why not go out and help them (the homeless) while you’re working on a degree? It makes more sense that way.”
He said last year, they collected more than 2,000 articles of clothing and this year they are hoping to match or double that number.
“We’re hoping for big numbers this year … hopefully everyone pitches in and does their part for the community. It’s a team effort, not a one-man show,” he said. “Think about it like this, there’s a lot of people in Dayton that are struggling to make ends meet and they’re struggling to keep their families warm, so as Sinclair students, if you could donate some food around the holiday season that would make a kid’s life better or if you could clothe a back of a hard-working parent trying to provide for their children, why not donate? That’s such a noble cause.”