{"id":683,"date":"2019-06-02T14:47:44","date_gmt":"2019-06-02T21:47:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/inside.ewu.edu\/civicengagement\/?p=683"},"modified":"2019-06-02T14:47:44","modified_gmt":"2019-06-02T21:47:44","slug":"fighting-hunger-food-drive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inside.ewu.edu\/civicengagement\/fighting-hunger-food-drive\/","title":{"rendered":"Fighting Hunger Food Drive"},"content":{"rendered":"

Student Contributor -C. Hernandez
\nMy 4th grade students raised 71 items to donate to 2nd Harvest<\/a>. The students were able to help the community fight hunger. They were able to understand the concept of helping and how we ourselves can make a difference in our own community.\"\"<\/p>\n

After students learned about 2nd harvest and the importance of civic engagement projects, it was time to make a goal of how many nonperishable items we wanted to raise. My 4th grade students made a goal to raise 130 items to donate to 2nd Harvest. They agreed that if each student brought five items we would reach our goal. Every time a new student would bring in some items we would count and write down the number up in the white board to keep track of how far we were from reaching our goal. Before we could begin our food drive, we discussed of what items were appropriate to bring. The students discussed that we couldn\u2019t bring milk, chips, candy etc. because these individuals that were in need of food needed healthy food. The students raised a total of 71 items to donate. Once we finished the food drive, I took the items to 2nd Harvest to donate them. This project was a service to the community, because there are many students and families that don\u2019t know where their next meals will come from. The students knew that the items donated would be given to students that needed meals because 2nd Harvest partners up with schools and communities with a program called Bite 2 Go. This programs supplies food to students that many not have food during the weekend. On Thursday\u2019s a bag filled with healthy food is sent home to students that are in need. You could see the happiness on my students faces when they saw a bag filled with healthy items being delivered to one of their own classmates. It was powerful for the students to see their contributions make a difference.<\/p>\n

\"\"I was very pleased with the way this project turned out. Even though the students didn\u2019t reach their goal of 130 items, they tried their best with the time we had. The food drive was only about 4 weeks long, it was from May 1st to May 24th. My advice to others would be to do the project for more than 4 weeks. I would also advice that if you\u2019re doing this with older students, you could have the students volunteer at 2nd harvest and help sort the food. They would be making the bags filled with healthy food that get distributed at many schools in Spokane WA.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

My 4th grade students raised 71 items to donate to 2nd Harvest. The students were able to help the community fight hunger. They were able to understand the concept of helping and how we ourselves can make a difference in our own community.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2049,"featured_media":684,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wpo365_audiences":[],"wpo365_private":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[13,14,16],"class_list":["post-683","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-medium-project","tag-3rd-5th-grade","tag-6th-8th-grade","tag-k-2nd-grade"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inside.ewu.edu\/civicengagement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/683"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/inside.ewu.edu\/civicengagement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/inside.ewu.edu\/civicengagement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inside.ewu.edu\/civicengagement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2049"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inside.ewu.edu\/civicengagement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=683"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/inside.ewu.edu\/civicengagement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/683\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inside.ewu.edu\/civicengagement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/684"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inside.ewu.edu\/civicengagement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=683"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inside.ewu.edu\/civicengagement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=683"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inside.ewu.edu\/civicengagement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=683"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}