Pantry project drives club

Sponsoring a food drive a year ago was so rewarding for members of the K-Kids Club at Harris Elementary School, Greenfield, Indiana, they decided to stage an encore this year.

A happy K-Kids member packs staple items into a box bound for the food pantry.

Working in tandem, these K-Kids box up canned goods collected during a food drive.

Sorting canned goods is the task at hand for this K-Kids member.

“It was a school-wide campaign for the Hancock County Food Pantry,” says faculty advisor Susan Nichter. “The K-Kids talked about it during morning announcements and made posters for around the school and fliers that went home. They also wrote newsletter articles and even had an article about the drive published in the (Greenfield) Daily Reporter.”

Club members staffed a large table at the front of the school where they collected more than 1,000 items, including personal hygiene items, cleaning supplies, canned goods, and food items such as peanut butter, pasta, and boxed meals. The students sorted the items, dated them, and loaded them into boxes to be taken to the food pantry.

The drive is but one of many projects the club routinely performs to benefit its school and community. Others include raising funds to purchase outdoor recess equipment (jump ropes, sidewalk chalk, basketball nets), walking to raise money for the fight against cystic fibrosis, staging an annual Valentine’s Staff Appreciation Day, and campus beautification.