A&M-Victoria students spend weekend volunteering

On Saturday, Texas A&M University-Victoria students made a strong community impact with two Victoria nonprofits. A group of 25 students along with staff members joined Keep Victoria Beautiful’s Fall Sweep: Litter Cleanup event. The university volunteers, top, picked up several bags full of trash along the Zac Lentz Parkway between McCoy’s and Prosperity Bank. Another group of 27 students volunteered at the Food Bank of the Golden Crescent that morning, bottom. The students spent the morning putting together and labeling bags of food, handling rice, cleaning the warehouse, checking and bagging sodas, and going through surveys. The volunteering at the Food Bank will add to the university’s points total in the Hunger Heroes competition led by the Food Bank throughout the month of September.

Texas A&M University-Victoria, located in the heart of the Coastal Bend region since 1973 in Victoria, Texas, offers courses leading to more than 50 academic programs in the colleges of Business, Education & Health Professions, Liberal Arts & Social Sciences, and Natural & Applied Science. A&M-Victoria provides face-to-face classes at its Victoria campus, as well as online classes that students can take from anywhere. The university supports the American Association of State Colleges and Universities Opportunities for All initiative to increase awareness about state colleges and universities and the important role they have in providing a high-quality and accessible education to an increasingly diverse student population, as well as contributing to regional and state economic development.