Go Forth to Serve: MS Hosts Food Drive To Fight Childhood Hunger
By: Susan Bralower, Middle School Science Chair
St. Luke’s Middle School Service Board organized a food drive to benefit Filling in the Blanks, a Norwalk-based nonprofit that helps fight childhood hunger by providing food for kids to eat on weekends and during school closures.
Students in grades five through eight were divided into two teams—salty and sweet—and collected items such as raisins, potato chips, fruit snacks, and pretzels. The goal was to collect 215 of each item to make snack packs for food-insecure children to enjoy over spring break.
Following the collection, more than 20 seventh graders participated in an after-school community service event, taking all the delicious sweet and salty snacks and packing 305 bags to distribute to local kids in need.
St. Luke’s School is a secular (non-religious), private school in New Canaan, CT for grades 5 through 12 serving over 40 towns in Connecticut and New York. Our exceptional academics and diverse co-educational community foster students’ intellectual and ethical development and prepare them for top colleges. St. Luke’s Leading with Humanity curriculum builds the commitment to serve and the confidence to lead.