Thanksgiving Food Drive

I'm Turkey Hill finger and I'm Riley Lab Focus, and

we are members of the Medical Academy at Perry High

School. The Health Foundation of Greater Muslim Grant was used

this year to conduct a Thanksgiving food drive.

We began this process by looking at our community and

need Perry.

Local schools had a poverty rate at 38%.

Prior to the pandemic, however, there has been much job

loss and families are experiencing much financial hardship.

We wondered, How can we help?

We reached out to a Perry local Schools care team

and discovered we could help students and their families in

our district and local food cupboards with our Thanksgiving food

drive. What is the care team?

The care team is developed and comprised of teachers, administrators

and staff for multiple community agencies, including law enforcement, mental

health, alcohol and drugs and other social service agencies.

Located throughout the county, the team works together in a

school based environment to address challenges facing the student population

and their families.

Each school district has a care team as a part

of as part of the Start County Educational Service Centre

and making sure students have access to food as part

of the care team's mission.

Mhm. We have worked with seven local food covered during

previous Thanksgiving food drives, and we reached out to them

to discover their needs.

These food cupboards are Perry Christian Church Read Urban Presbyterian

Church, ST Joan of Arc Church.

Can'T and Calvary Mission, Refuge of Hope, Salvation Army of

Masculine and Perry.

Helping Perry.

Mm. Throughout this endeavor in the fall, we wondered, How

are we going to be able to keep our community

and our students safe while trying to run a food

drive during a pandemic?

This dilemma was solved by a request from one of

our local food cupboards.

We were contacted by one of them, and they stated,

We are only accepting food gift card donations this Thanksgiving

season in order to keep our staff and community safe.

We thought this might just be the solution to our

problem. In order to still meet the needs of our

community and keep our students in our community safe.

We figured out how to run a food drive during

a pandemic, and we were able to raise $4000 in

total. We were able to donate $2250 to 33 Perry

families. If a family had four members or less, they

received $50 a family of 5 to 7 re $75

and a family of eight or more received $100.

We're We were also able to donate $250 to 7

local food covered at a total of $1750 to make

sure we were getting food necessary supplies to families.

We were able to secure food only gift cards that

could not be used to purchase tobacco or alcohol.

Let's look a little deeper at the breakdown of our

fundraising campaign.

This is how we grew $1000 from the Health Foundation

of Greater Masculine into $4000.

To begin with, we had left over from 20 21,000

and $77 in our balance.

We received the $1000 grant from the Health Foundation of

Greater Masculine, and all of this provided the momentum prepared

local school staff and students to raise $1923 for a

total donation of $4000.

Yeah, our mission was accomplished These are some notes from

the Canton Calvary Mission and Read Urban Church, thanking us

for the donations.

This entire process has had a huge impact on our

students, staff and community, and remind us that reminded us

of a quote from Coretta Scott King.

The greatness of a community is most accurately measured by

the compassionate actions of its members.

Very high school in the Peri Medical Academy Express a

huge thank you to the Health Foundation of Greater Masculine

in the Start Start County Community Foundation for the support

of our project.

In the yearly support of all the community service endeavors

of all the schools of Western, Stark and Eastern Wayne

counties, it is greatly appreciate Thank you again for your

support.

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