Kappa Phi’s sock drive ran thoughout October.
Kappa Phi’s fundraising activity, “Socktober,” aims to collect packaged socks and other goods for the Oklahoma City Homeless Alliance.
Rebecca Hill, elementary education senior and Kappa Phi co-president, said the items will be outsourced to families, veterans, the homeless, and other Oklahoma City residents in need.
“The organization is focusing mainly on the long term homeless community,” Hill said. “That basically means those who are consistently bouncing in and out of homelessness. The Homeless Alliance is trying to work with them, as well as families and veterans who don’t have a consistent income.”
Hill says Kappa Phi members have been collecting items in bins placed in the chapel basement and outside the cafeteria.
“We’ll accept a whole range of items, as long as they are unused and packaged,” Hill said. “We can offer them many different items, if they are good quality.”
Isabel Finney, biomedical science junior and Kappa Phi community service chair, said the fundraiser has not been as successful as she hoped.
“It hasn’t been going well,” Finney said. “We haven’t been pushing or advertising very much, which I can understand. October is a crazy month.”
“I know we’re all busy here on campus, but we are in a position of privilege where we can actually help others and really make an impact,” Finney said.
Hill said she encourages students to donate whatever they may have.
“It takes very minimal effort to serve others in a great way,” Hill said. “We may just see socks, for example, as something insignificant, but it’s about to be winter and freezing outside. Those who are homeless and have to wander the streets looking for food are a lot more vulnerable, and these donations would mean so much to them.”
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