SOSU NASA holds hygiene product drive

The Southeastern Native American Student Association, Choctaw Nation Adoption and Foster Care and Choctaw Children and Family Services teamed up for a Hygiene Product Drive.

Jayda Janway, president of the Native American Student Association, made it a goal to participate in a large community service project before the semester was over, with a promise to repeat that with a new community service project the following semester.

Jayda and her sister, Sierra Janway, are a foster care family, and Sierra used to work in Indian Child Welfare, so Choctaw Youth is very important to them.

“I brought this idea to my group, and we all voted yes to participation. For the drive, there was a table set up in the lobby of the Student Union building on campus the entire week (March 21st-25th) to take donations,” said Jayda. “We do not have a tangible number of how many products, but we do know that it was able to fill about 8 of the humongous tubs from Walmart. It had to be loaded in the back of a Chevy equinox and it filled the entire car up to the top!”

According to Jayda, many Choctaws will benefit from this drive.

“All our Choctaw families benefit from these hygiene products, such as those in Family Violence, Family Preservation, Indian Child Welfare clients, social services, and all of our Choctaw families in between.

SE NASA participants included students Jayda Janway, Shay James, Rebecca Carrol, Josie Frazier, Emma Quintana, Madison Saunders, and Joshua Kitzrow and their advisors, Lauren Rowland and James Sutton.