Written by Marketing Intern Rose Provine
The students at Smith River Elementary School are donating their time and effort to do great things.
The school hosts an annual food drive, and they collected nearly 1,000 food items in just two weeks this year. In order to get the children more enthusiastic about the food drive, there was a competition among K-4 and 5-8 grades to see who could bring in the most food. The incentive was to win an ice cream party, but the children were so wrapped up with giving back that the initial motive wasn’t nearly as important.
The collected items were given to volunteers at the Smith River United Methodist Church, who helped to distribute the canned foods.
After getting a taste of giving back, the school is now hoping to do even more. The school’s principal wants to have a food pantry stocked at all times of the year in order to give back in the event of a disaster. He claimed that the community is always giving back to them, so they are just doing their party and paying it forward.
Smith River Elementary School is also starting a shoe drive to help people locally and in Africa. The overflowing amount of shoes that were going to be thrown away are available to local residents for free at the school. The rest of the shoes will be purchased for 20 cents per pound by Thrifty International, an organization that will then donate the shoes to Africa.
In just a short amount of time, the students at this school have made a huge difference. You, too, can make a difference with very little effort. Do your part and give back to those in need.
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