Arkansas Tech students have helped ensure several hundred families will have a quality meal this holiday season.
Students at Arkansas Tech helped provide more than $3,000 worth of meals as part of a partnership with the Salvation Army.
Helping Halls is an annual initiative that encourages students living in residence halls at Arkansas Tech to collect meal kits that will be provided to those in need.
Arkansas Tech students collected 276 meals that were donated to the Salvation Army for distribution this holiday season. The food was delivered by representatives of the Arkansas Tech Office of Residence Life last week.
Each kit cost approximately $13 to complete, and the kits included turkey gravy, canned sweet potatoes, green beans, corn, cranberries, pie filling, stuffing mix, boxed mashed potatoes mix, marshmallows and a pie crust.
The kits will be paired with a turkey or ham collected by the Salvation Army and given to families in need of assistance.
Students living in each of the residence halls raised funds to collect and purchase kits. Residents of Roush Hall received the award for raising the most kits.
Over its nine-year existence, Helping Halls has provided more than 2,500 kits.
Learn more about the Office of Residence Life.
See photos from the food collection.
