The Student Government is collecting items ranging from clothing and personal hygiene products to notebooks and Greek literature books for the victims of this September’s devastating forest fires in mainland Greece and the Peloponnese.

Items collected include soaps, shampoos, toothpastes, toothbrushes, notebooks, pens, pencils, linen and canned food and other edibles that do not require refrigeration such as beans and pasta.

All gathered aid will be delivered by College community members to local authorities, while the Student Affairs office has contacted local educators in order to better determine the needs of the local high school students.

As one professor from the Ilia prefecture said in an e-mail in September, local educators “can’t even ask [their] students to purchase notebooks.”

Items can be dropped off every day from 11:00 to 18:00 at room DC-308 on the Aghia Paraskevi Campus, or the Office of Student Affairs in the Student Success Center.