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<\/a>Wright State volunteers distribute food at the Dayton Foodbank.<\/p><\/div>\n
Jerry Hensley, an application systems administrator for Computing and Telecommunications, also helped collect donations for Crayons to Classrooms and Raid Our Closet, which will provide donated business apparel to Wright State students.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think servitude is a thread that runs through the Wright State fabric,\u201d said Hensley.<\/p>\n
Lora Davenport, advocacy and programs manager at the Foodbank who graduated from Wright State in 2012, helped oversee Wright State volunteers build packages of food to be distributed to seniors.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s great that my alma mater is here to support the Foodbank and everything its mission is for \u2013 making sure nobody goes hungry at night,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n
Last year, 3,800 people volunteered at the Foodbank, which is among 12 in Ohio. It helps support 103 different agencies, in Montgomery, Greene and Preble counties.<\/p>\n
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<\/a>Wright State volunteers prepare boxes of food at the Dayton Foodbank.<\/p><\/div>\n
Wooden pallets bearing stacks of cardboard boxes filled with bottled water, cereal, pistachios and other items fill the Foodbank warehouse, on Dayton\u2019s west side. Usually the Foodbank distributes items at the warehouse once a week, but it has been distributing every single weekday since Memorial Day because of damage wreaked by tornadoes.<\/p>\n
On July 19, 209 vehicles passed through the warehouse. Many of them collected items for more than one family. It was not uncommon for a single vehicle to collect for as many as four families.<\/p>\n
Cherylyn Lander, an academic adviser in the College of Education and Human Services, was one of the volunteers at the Foodbank. She said she was so excited when she learned the university was going to give employees time off to do service work.<\/p>\n
\u201cI wish we could do it more often,\u201d she said. \u201cWe talk about the relationship and building our community around us. Those of us who work at Wright State care about people and we want to help improve peoples\u2019 circumstances.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
It was all part of a July 19 university-wide service day opportunity for employees, who took a half-day off work to help the community without having to use leave time. Continue reading