Student and teacher volunteers filled bags with pasta, vegetables, cereal and more for the Graniteville community Monday afternoon at Leavelle McCampbell Middle School.
The food distribution event, taking place Tuesday afternoon, is a partnership between LMMS and local organization Area Churches Together Serving.
Around 48 families – totaling 175 people – were expected to pick up food, including meat to be packed shortly beforehand, said LMMS Principal Dr. Tiffany Hall.
Within about 30 minutes, a volunteer crew of 15 kids from the LMMS after-school program and 14 teachers packed 96 bags.
Cheering on the students was Allison Boggess, a seventh-grade science teacher who volunteered at the event. Boggess encouraged students to keep going as they went from station to station.
The after-school program at LMMS is called LEADS, an acronym for “learn, empower, achieve, develop and serve.” The program serves about 80 students, Hall said.
“One of the things that we do in the LEADS time is public service. Service leadership is what we’re trying to build in students,” Hall said.
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