Akers Hall Community Director Sara Olsztyn found an easy way for students to keep less fortunate children warm during the winter.

Socktober is a donation drive started by Soul Pancake and Kid President that collects new socks or money for the purchase of new socks. At the end of the drive, all sock donations will be delivered to a local shelter.

OIsztyn placed two plastic bins in both east and west Akers Hall where students can place socks, and has directed RAs in both buildings to collect socks on their floors.

“We didn’t get to do it last year because of the lack of time, but this year I wanted to do it,” she said. “It’s super easy to do — just purchase socks while you’re out. Socktober is unique because shelters are used to getting donations of bunches of clothes — socks are a small but important thing that gets run through easily.”

Olsztyn said donations to the drive have been decent, but she hopes for more participation.

Socktober at MSU will last until Oct. 31. The bins are located at the service desks in East Akers Hall and West Akers Hall in East Neighborhood.

“There are over 1,200 kids that live in these dorms, if just one hundred of them donate one pair of socks— that will be one hundred socks that we can give,” said Olsztyn. “We are looking to see gratitude on people’s faces.”