Students in Free Enterprise to Launch Hunger Food Drive

FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – Students in Free Enterprise, a student organization at the University of Arkansas, has teamed up with Campbell Soup Co. to participate in Campbell Soup “Let’s Can Hunger” food drive. This is an international community service project, operating in Australia, Canada, Mexico and the United States.

The SIFE team has enrolled as an official participant to help collect nonperishable food items such as canned vegetables, fruit and meat through April 9. To benefit the local community, special arrangements were made to donate all collected food items to the Northwest Arkansas Food Bank in Bethel Heights, Ark.

To help SIFE kick off the food drive, Tim Toll, Campell’s vice president-global for Walmart, will speak at 5:30 p.m. Wednesday, Feb. 24, in Willard J. Walker Hall, Room 124, on the University of Arkansas campus. Toll will talk about the objectives of the Let’s Can Hunger food drive. The event is free and open to faculty, staff, students and the public. SIFE will provide dinner to participants.

On Tuesday, March 2, and Thursday, March 4, from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m., SIFE members will staff a location outside the Arkansas Union food court to accept donations from students, faculty, staff and community members. Donations can also be accepted in the Sam M. Walton College Career Development Center, Alpha Omicron Pi sorority, Beta Upsilon Chi fraternity and in the University Career Development Center in the Arkansas Union.

SIFE is housed in the Sam M. Walton College of Business. Susan Bristow, instructor in information systems, is the faculty sponsor. SIFE is a global, nonprofit organization active on more than 1,800 university campuses in over 40 countries. SIFE offers students the opportunity to develop leadership, teamwork and communication skills through learning, practicing and teaching principles of free enterprise, thereby improving the standard of living for millions in the process.