One Can At A Time
Students organize canned food drive to provide food for people in our school district
The Advanced Marketing 2 class gathers the cans that students have donated.
November 6, 2018
When many Liberty students go home, they have the luxury and comfort of knowing that there is food in the pantry for them to eat at home. They know that their needs will be met. Many even take it for granted and barely give it a thought. But some people at this school are not so fortunate. And that’s where Backpack Impact comes in.
Seniors Jack Kavanaugh and Evan Sacks decided to hold a canned food drive to benefit Backpack Impact, as their chapter project in their Advanced 2 Marketing Class.
“They supply food on the weekends to kids in our school district that’re lower income,” explained their teacher Ms. Taylor.
Jack Kavanaugh helps to organize the final can count as part of his project in Advanced Marketing 2 class.
Backpack Impact is a foundation based out of Morning Star Church that “directly takes what cans they’ve got and give it to people we know, people we share classrooms with,” Kavanaugh said. “My girlfriend’s mom – she helps lead it (Backpack Impact), so when we found out that we were going to do a charity project I knew for a fact that we were gonna go with hers.”
After the canned food drive took place, the students drove the goods over to the church where they also packaged the food to send out. With all 350 of the cans that were collected at Liberty, many people were able to go home and have a decent meal for dinner. By donating, you are making a difference one can at a time.
