Wouldn’t it be nice to help feed hungry families in your community? Giving a helping hand to people who need it? Helping out can be the best feeling ever.

From September 29 to October 15 Paint Branch is having a Kids Helping Kids Food & Funds drive event. The purpose of this event is to help feed the hungry families in the local community. The SGA & NHS at Paint Branch High School are sponsoring this food drive. The two groups have placed boxes in each classroom and asked first period classes to donate canned and boxed foods so that families can be fed. State Superintendent Lillian M. Lowery is setting a goal this year to collect 500,000 pounds of food for hungry Marylanders.

Our area have much hunger that people in the community don’t know about, so this drive is an important event.  According to the SGA and NHS flyer that explains the drive, all types of food is needed, including canned soups, stews, fruits, vegetables, proteins (tuna and beans), bags or boxes of rice, pasta, milk in cans (evaporated).  Infant formulas and peanut butter are also needed. The food will be given to Manna, a facility in Gaithersburg that stores collected food so that it can be given to hungry families to stock their pantries. Manna’s hope is that, by helping these people out, they can help them both satisfy their food needs and help them to never have to go hungry again. Manna runs food drives like this one throughout the year.

According to Laura Vandemark, The NHS and SGA partnered to organize the Kids Helping Kids Food Drive to help out the community. We collect all the food and donate it to Manna, which distributes it to Montgomery county residents. “I wanted to be a part of this project because I love participating in anything that works to end hunger. There is enough food in this world for everyone and I want to help get it to the right people.”