Students clean out cupboards for charity

Trent Davis (left) and Michael Mitchell with items they have collected for Dunedin foodbanks....
Trent Davis (left) and Michael Mitchell with items they have collected for Dunedin foodbanks. Photo by Linda Robertson.

Dunedin foodbanks are to get an early Christmas present courtesy of a charity-minded collection by surveying students Trent Davis and Michael Mitchell.

The Clyde St flatmates organised their collection to take advantage of the annual "scarfie migration" homewards, when students pack up to return home for the summer holidays.

Mr Mitchell said he estimated about 50 students had cleaned out their cupboards to contribute to the collection, after the altruistic pair used social networking sites to publicise their efforts.

Apart from the many cans of food, packets of pasta, and other non-perishable items, including clothes, "big-ticket" donations in the shape of an unwanted X-box and a couple of DVD players had also arrived, Mr Mitchell said.

He estimated "a few-hundred" dollars worth of goods had been donated by students.

The goods are to be passed on to the Otago Combined Foodbanks service this week to be distributed among several different social service providers.

 

 

 

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