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Carwise Students Organize Successful Food Drive
The students planned and partnered with community organizations to feed the needy.
Students at Carwise Elementary have collected more than 1,000 non-perishable food items.
The students in school's Builders Club organized the food drive as a part of their service learning project, according to this recent story in the Tampa Bay Times.
They decided to align themselves with USA Today-sponsored, "Lead2Feed World Hunger Leadership Challenge," which encourages middle and high schoolers to take on a project that solves hunger.
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Students created a project slogan, designed collection boxes, publicized and garnered community support for the drive. As a result, the Top of the Bay Kiwanis Club donated 500 non-perishable food items to the school's drive.
In all the students collected 1,094 food items, according to the Times story. The food will be donated to the F.E.A.S.T Food Pantry in Palm Harbor.
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To read the entire Times story go here.
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