Several University of Wisconsin Oshkosh athletics teams will come together to volunteer for a Feeding America mobile food pantry event on Dec. 19.

The Dec. 19 Feeding America Eastern Wisconsin mobile food pantry will be held at Kolf Sports Center at UW Oshkosh from 3 until 5 p.m. Feeding America of Eastern Wisconsin will lead the mobile food pantry and will provide more than 20,000 pounds of food, which will be distributed at UWO’s Kolf Sports Center. More than 400 families are expected to be served during the mobile pantry.

Along with student-athletes and representatives from UW Oshkosh Athletics, faculty and staff from across campus will be on hand to donate their time and talents to ensure all recipients receive their food. Students from the Oshkosh North High School Communities program will volunteer their time at the event to help transport food items to vehicles, as needed.

Several organizations made the mobile food pantry a reality; those organizations are: J. J. Keller Foundation, Inc., Feeding America of Eastern Wisconsin, Titan Touchdown Club and the UW Oshkosh Foundation.

The Hunger Task Force of Oshkosh, which consists of six local food pantries, will be in charge of data collection and documentation via a survey at the mobile pantry event. All data collected will be sent to the Oshkosh City Planning Office, UW Oshkosh, as well as the Chamber of Commerce for analysis. The Oshkosh Northwestern and the League of Woman Voters will be reporting the groups findings and working with the team throughout the project.

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