Poverty & Hunger
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For 4th and 5th graders involved in their school's production of " Annie " the musical was about much more than an orphan and her dog. It was a window into a past era and an opportunity to improve their own time.
After learning that schools in Honduras lacked books, elementary students wrote letters in Spanish to their peers in Honduras and raised $1,000 to provide books for them.
It all began as an introduction to the letter "Q": Quilt-related literature, both fiction and nonfiction, was read to the kindergarteners to give them the historical and cultural backgrounds on the origins of quilts. The children then took their love of quilting one step further, creating a quilt to comfort a baby residing in a nearby shelter.
In a school focused on service, 8th and 9th graders shined in their work with their community's hungry, homeless, orphans, and elderly—reaching out to a soup kitchen, and orphanage, and a nursing home.
As part of a communications curriculum, kindergarten through 6th-grade students invited a representative from a local food pantry to speak to them. The speaker explained that many people in the community were hungry, and the students were moved to organize a food drive.
When their school replaced the students' holiday gift exchange with service projects, 2nd-grade students decided to help the hungry. The project opened the students' eyes and the community's hearts.
