Please donate any new or
used shoes, boots, coats,
blankets and other winter
accessories. All donations will
benefit needy families in the
Southeast Appalachian region
of Kentucky.Collection boxes will
be set up throughout
UK’s campus. You may also contact John Kim in the College of Public Health
.
Thank you for taking the time to contribute to Wildcat Warmth. We believe the students, staff, and faculty at the University of Kentucky are committed to helping our neighbors in the state of Kentucky. Your donations will help needy families in the souteastern region of Kentucky stay warm during the coming winter months.
You can make a donation at any of the following locations:
On campus:
- Commons Market
- Blazer Cafe
- Student Center (near the information desk)
- Hall of Fame area near Wildcat Deli in Kentucky Clinic
- Gatton College of Business and Economics atrium
- Ag North Deli
- Early Childhood Development Lab in Erikson Hall
- CATS Center/Athletics in Memorial Coliseum
- Peterson Building
Off campus:
- UK Markey Cancer Control Program Southcreek Properties, 2365 Harrodsburg Road, Suite A230
- Lexington Athletic Club 3992 W Tiverton Ct (next to Fayette Mall)
- Lexington Montessori School 319 S Broadway Park
Wildcat Warmth 2008
UK Collection Drive to Benefit Appalachian Families
(Article published the Lexington Herald community section on Dec. 24, 2008)
Students, faculty and staff at the University of Kentucky were encouraged this winter to donate used coats, shoes and other items as part of a campus wide collection drive organized and sponsored by students in the College of Public Health. Donations benefited families in the Appalachian region of Kentucky. Organizers said their goal was to help raise awareness of the economic and health disparity in the Appalachian counties of Kentucky, an area where 28 percent of the population live below the poverty line.
The collection drive ran for several weeks on campus, with support coming from groups such as student government, the business school, and the nursing and medical schools. The athletic department was also a huge supporter, with the director of operations for academics helping to coordinate collection effort after athletic UK’s athletic director shared a personal account of the extreme conditions that he recently witnessed in the Appalachian region. As word of the collection grew, donations also came from places like Asbury Seminary, Louisville, and even Baton Rouge, LA- where a sister of one of the graduate students in the public health program was so moved by the stories of poverty in the area that she drove up during Thanksgiving with over twenty bags of clothing.
Over 150 coats, 100 pairs of shoes, and hundreds of bags containing blankets and items of clothing such as of gloves, sweaters, jeans, etc. were collected and transported to the region last Friday by Dr. Richard Crosby, head of the Department of Health Behavior in the College of Public Health.
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