Students help collect food for hurricane relief project

Allison Walker WAL03026@BYUI.EDU Scroll Staff

Students and community members assisted one Shelley company in a hurricane relief project last week.

OK Trailers, based in Shelley, Idaho, received an order from the Federal Emergency Management Agency for as many trailers as OK Trailers could provide. These trailers would be used as temporary living accommodations for homeless hurricane victims.

OK Trailers was able to provide 47 of these trailers, but the student and community members wanted to do more. They set up trailers last Wednesday and Thursday in Rigby and Shelley, Idaho, and one in Rexburg, just outside of Broulim’s. These trailers were to collect donations to take to Texas.

Volunteers from BYU-Idaho and the community donated their time to help collect donations of food and hygiene supplies and organize them in the trailer. The goal was to not only provide homes for several families, but to bless the lives of many more with necessities of life.

“I’m excited to be involved with a company interested in doing something like this,” said Mitch Littlewood, a junior from Shelley, Idaho, and OK Trailers employee and service volunteer.

“It was a good opportunity because I had been looking for ways to help in the relief effort,” said Jessica Steimer, a sophomore from Tucson, Ariz.

Volunteers also got to see examples of “the widow’s mite,” Steimer said. “It was good to see that when some people have so little, they still give.”