Fall River students start family food bank

This article is about a few middle students who have collaborated with UMass Dartmouth in a program called LEADS in hopes of fighting hunger and homelessness. These students have created a food pantry. In order to get food, they have been doing such things as requiriing students to bring canned foods in order to enter the school's dances, or by having their parents involved in supplying food during open house events at school. The students are from Morton and Talbot middle schools. Toiletry items have also been collected for the homeless and people in need. I found this article interesting because it shows that anyone can help make a change in a person's life. There are many people out there who need assistance in many ways and even the most minimal effort can help them have a meal to eat. This article also relates to our latest discussions in class about the different types of community organizations. In this case, the type of service the students are doing is being done in a Macro level. It involves people trying to help a whole community. Many people in their community are benefitting from their generous work. It is great to see the leaders of tomorrow be so concerned about poverty issues. I found this article at: http://www.heraldnews.com/topstories/x655690684/Fall-River-students-start-family-food-bank