Thomas Hunter Middle School’s Family, Career and Community Leaders of America program embarked on a program to address food insecurity in the community through its “Every 1, Bring 1: Feed Many” project.
This year’s National Outreach Program for the FCCLA is an organization called “Explore. Act. Tell.” The project-based learning program teaches sixth-12th grade students to understand and combat food insecurity in their community.
When the local FCCLA students were brainstorming about community service projects, the overwhelming response was to help the homeless in the region, said FCCLA advisor Michelle Williams.
Being discouraged with the thought of the magnitude of need, the children were challenged with the thought, “What if every person did one little part,” Williams asked. After further discussion, the students embarked on its new project. Children began to collect non-perishable breakfast food items, a plea was put out on social media and students began to decorate paper lunch bag...