Middle Tennessee State University’s Student Government Association and the Student Organizations and Service Office partnered with Meals of Hope this week to package thousands of meals for students and families in need on campus and beyond.
More than 80 MTSU students from throughout the campus assisted in packing 15,000 meals filled with a variety of nonperishable items as part of the university’s annual Big Event community service project. The event is held each year to provide Blue Raider students an opportunity to participate in “one big day of service.”
Organizers said most of the meals will be donated to the MTSU Student Food Pantry and the remainder will be donated to Nourish Food Bank, according to Jackie Victory, director of Student Organizations and Service in the Center for Student Involvement and Leadership.
With no intervention, over 10% of Tennessee residents will face food scarcity this year.
MT One Stop and the Student Government Association started the Student Food Pantry in 2012. MTSU joined the College and University Food Bank Alliance in March 2017, which joins institutions with established food pantries or ones looking to start a food pantry. The items for the food pantry are stocked from food drives, individual and group donations, as well as monetary donations.
Learn more about the pantry and how you can help at https://mtsu.edu/foodpantry/.
Middle Tennessee State University student Michai Mosby, left, president of the Student Government Association, joins other student volunteers Wednesday, Feb. 21, in the Student Union in helping package 15,000 meals filled with a variety of nonperishable items as part of the university’s annual Big Event community service project. Organizers said most of the meals will be donated to the MTSU Food Pantry and the remainder will be donated to Nourish Food Bank. More than 80 students participated. (MTSU photo courtesy of Jackie Victory) 
A group from the more than 80 Middle Tennessee State University student volunteers assist in packing 15,000 meals filled with a variety of nonperishable items as part of the university’s annual Big Event community service project held Wednesday, Feb. 21, in the Student Union Building. Organizers said most of the meals will be donated to the MTSU Food Pantry and the remainder will be donated to Nourish Food Bank. (MTSU photo courtesy of Jackie Victory) 
A group from the more than 80 Middle Tennessee State University student volunteers assist in packing 15,000 meals filled with a variety of nonperishable items as part of the university’s annual Big Event community service project held Wednesday, Feb. 21, in the Student Union Building. Organizers said most of the meals will be donated to the MTSU Food Pantry and the remainder will be donated to Nourish Food Bank. (MTSU photo courtesy of Jackie Victory) 
Pre-packed nonperishable food items such as these vegetable soup meals were part of the 15,000 meals that more than 80 student volunteers packed up as part of the university’s annual Big Event community service project held Wednesday, Feb. 21, in the Student Union Building. Organizers said most of the meals will be donated to the MTSU Food Pantry and the remainder will be donated to Nourish Food Bank. (MTSU photo courtesy of Jackie Victory)
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