SGA is helping students send care packages to soldiers in Iraq. Students can buy items they wish to send and SGA will provide boxes, pay for the postage and mail the package the same day.
The Student Government Association is supporting the troops by paying for students to send care packages to soldiers overseas.
Students can buy any items they wish to send to a soldier in Iraq and SGA will provide boxes and packaging supplies as well as pay for the postage to send the packages.
SGA members will have a table set up on Library Lawn from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. today and Thursday where students can package their items and drop them off to be shipped.
Agriculture communications senior Whitney Danker, who is in charge of the event, approached SGA about starting the project because the war is something that hits close to home for her family.
“My cousin is about to leave — he’s my age — and he’s about to leave for Iraq,” Danker said. “And it was an idea of ‘Man, wouldn’t it be great if people who have family and friends over in Iraq could send packages for free over there?’”
SGA will provide some supplies such as eye drops, Chapstick, sunscreen and socks that students can in include their packages.
Danker suggests other items that students might want to include would be light items, such as nonperishable snacks, and entertainment items, such as hand-held games or playing cards.
“I know that right now, the soldiers are wanting things from America that remind them of home,” she said.
Danker also said if students do not know a person they would like to send a package to, but would still like to be involved in the project, SGA can provide them with an address of a soldier.
She said they will ship the packages before 5 p.m. on the same day that students drop them off.
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I love this. Thank you so much for allowing me to send a package to my soldier in Iraq. I can’t tell you how much this meant. I plan to send my package out on Thursday.