Students can donate unused meals to help those in need.
David Hall, music education/sociology sophomore, organized a meal donation program called OCU Feeds. This is the second semester for the program. In the fall, OCU Feeds donated 150 meals to the Oklahoma City Homeless Alliance shelter, 1724 N.W. Fourth St.
“The Homeless Alliance is a nonprofit organization dedicated to improving the system of care for the homeless in Oklahoma City,” according to the website, homelessalliance.org.
“I knew that as someone who is a performer that works and is very busy, the cafeteria isn’t always open whenever eating fits in my schedule,” Hall said.
“Because of my schedule, I end up having around 78 meals left at the end of the semester, and I know a lot of other students often have too many meals or StarsCash left over that could easily be donated.”
Student can donate from 2 p.m. to 5 p.m. April 21 at the OCU Feeds table outside of the caf in Tom and Brenda McDaniel University Center.
Any student with leftover meals or StarsCash can donate, as long as they have enough meals left for the rest of the semester. Students also can also donate new and gently used clothing and books.
Sodexo takes the number of swiped meals and creates meals to be brought to the Oklahoma City Homeless Alliance shelter.
Sodexo will donate up to 300 meals, double the amount from last semester.
“It was nice to see my extra meals go to someone who needed them,” said Arash Allahyar, cell and molecular biology junior.
For more information, contact David Hall by email at dshall@my.okcu.edu.
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