The MLK Food Drive

by Marin T.

The Martin Luther King food drive was a success once again at Louise S. McGehee School. The Food Drive was from January 14, 2013 to January 22, 2013. This year McGehee collected about 1,900 food items for Second Harvest. McGehee got many types of food such as pasta, canned fruits, vegetables, cookies, crackers, cooking oil, rice and juice.

This year McGehee is going to help a lot of people because of all the kindness of all the students at McGehee. McGehee chose Second Harvest because it’s a very helpful organization to the citizens of New Orleans. Second Harvest delivers 22 million meals to approximately 263,000 people including nearly 82,000 children and 40,000 seniors.

The food drive was organized by teachers Erin Toomey Mark Babin, Allison Steinfeld, and all service learning chairs in Upper and Middle School. All the grades were plaired randomly, but the teachers did try to put together older students with younger students. They also tried to put together grades that don’t usually interact with each other. All of the students participated, but teachers could also help bring more food.

 All the food was brought to Second Harvest the last week of January.  Hopefully next year will be as successful as this year.