Charity generally leaves a good taste in your mouth, but is that chocolate milk we detect?
Big ups to Montgomery County students, who not only bared their brains to Alex Trebek this week, but also collected more than 1,000 pounds of food and delivered it to more than 2,000 homeless people in less than a year.
Food Recovery for the Hungry, which began last March at Gaithersburg Middle School, served its 1,094th pound of food to The Lord’s Table, a Gaithersburg soup kitchen, in February.
The program, whose volunteers collect chocolate milk, strawberry milk, juice, fresh fruit and more, is set to expand into four more Montgomery County middle and high schools next year.
Afarin Homer, executive director of the Youth Leadership Training Academy, is the program’s pioneer. She hopes the program will increase awareness of the “hunger crisis” in Montgomery.
“So much food is wasted within school cafeterias — why not prevent waste, help the homeless, and teach kids about helping the community all at once?” she said.
