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Help Charleston Southern University break its holiday giving record 🎁

November 1, 2022 • 
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Student holding holiday boxes at Charleston Southern University

Through on-campus initiatives + local partnerships, Charleston Southern University students serve impoverished communities here at home and around the world.

Photo provided by CSU Media

10,000+. That’s the record-breaking number of Operation Christmas Child boxes Charleston Southern University students packed in 2021. (Read: More than any other college or university in the nation.)

CSU hopes to break this record again by packing 12,000+ boxes this year. Here’s how you can help them reach it:

  • Drop off donations (think: socks, small toys, toothbrushes, and more) at CSU on Thurs., Nov. 10.
  • Help pack boxes on Thurs., Nov. 17.

‘Tis the season to volunteer.*

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