Monday, January 29, 2018

Food Drive with our students and staff

   Last year during the Christmas and New Year's season, Januck and I thought of a way to donate our time and energy to a City-wide food drive.  We involved the staff at our school and our 4th graders in donating food to the needy of our city, Numazu.
   We were so happy to collect food items that they needed like- curry packets, dried noodles and snacks for our food drive.  The students collected money so Januck and I could go to the local bulk store and buy these items on Sunday.
    When we went dropped off our 8 boxes of food this afternoon, the workers were surprised at our donations and happy to take a photo of the items.  We feel that by donating it is about caring for other people and we hope we can instill this idea in our students' minds.  Living in a foreign country and trying to manage a project like this has been an eye-opener for us.  We would like to try again in August at a bigger scale because homeless and hungry people will always be needy and worth our time and energy!
   Thank you to all who donated and helped with this project.  We have appreciated your help!
Our donation as a whole.  The white box in the background is what they collect City canned food and donations!  We did good as a staff and student donation!
Our students donated one third of their monies and it went towards the Food Drive.  They also want to help the National Red Cross and buy books for a local orphanage that Januck has been involved in these past years.

 

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