HHS students address hunger one bag at a time

Harriton students marked World Food Day by creating snack bags for the People's Emergency Center in Philadelphia. The project was developed by students in the gifted education program as part of a case study on World Hunger. Students from all grades contributed to the effort, including forty volunteers who decorated the bags and packed them with juice, raisins, dried fruit, crackers, cheese sticks, water, granola bars, fresh apples, fresh organic carrots and a Beanie Baby. Students also included letters to the children receiving the bags.

World Food Day began in 1981 and is celebrated every year on October 16th in more than 150 countries. It is celebrated to increase awareness of the rising hunger issues around the world and to commemorate the founding of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.