Wayne State University will transform part of its athletic campus into a massive drop-off station for canned goods and nonperishable food items during the Wayne Cares Food Drive, organized by the WSU Office of Community Affairs.

The university is partnering with AARP Michigan and Forgotten Harvest to collect and distribute food to families in need throughout Detroit. The community is asked to bring donations to the Adams Field football stadium at Trumbull and the I-94 service drive. A drive-thru style area will be set up for convenient donation drop-off.

The effort is expected to collect enough food to provide a week's worth of meals to 300 Detroit families. For a complete list of suggested donation items and additional drop-off locations, visit www.wayne.edu/fooddrive.

WHEN:

Thursday, Nov. 18, 7 a.m.-6 p.m.

WHERE:                    

Adams Field football stadium

1401 Edsel Ford (I-94) at Trumbull 

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The collected food will be sorted that same day on Wayne State's campus and distributed to Forgotten Harvest relief agencies to distribute to families on Friday, Nov. 19.

About Wayne Cares

Wayne Cares is a university outreach initiative that brings together the WSU community for the purpose of charitable giving. Its primary goal is to help university units work together and collaborate with each other for the good of the community.

About Forgotten Harvest

Forgotten Harvest fights hunger and waste in Metro Detroit by rescuing surplus, prepared and perishable food and providing it free of charge to 158 emergency food providers. Last year, the group provided nearly 20 million meals to the area's hungry.

About AARP

AARP is a nonprofit, nonpartisan membership organization that helps people who are 50 and older have independence, choice and control in ways that are beneficial and affordable to them and society as a whole. AARP operates in all 50 states, Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands.

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Wayne State University is a premier urban research institution of higher education offering more than 400 academic programs through 13 schools and colleges to nearly 32,000 students.