Lynnfield Middle School Food Drive: Lynnfield “Can” Make a Difference

For five years, the students at Lynnfield Middle School have hosted the “Food for Everyone” voluntary food drive.  The students, with the help of the LMS Parent Teacher Organization and Gathering Change, Inc., will be collecting non-perishable food for the Haven from Hunger Pantry in Peabody. Haven from Hunger is the local pantry where our Lynnfield neighbors go for emergency food assistance.  Gathering Change, Inc., a local grassroots non-profit organization that collects food or spare change for neighborhood food pantries has teamed up with the PTO and student council to organize this event.

Beginning February 25 through March 15 students at the Lynnfield Middle School will have the opportunity to donate non-perishable food items.  Students are asked to bring their donations to their homeroom where student council members will check expiration dates, count and bag the goods. The homeroom that collects the most food will be awarded a pizza party.  A Haven from Hunger truck will come to the school on each Friday throughout the event to pick up the food and deliver the collected items to the pantry.  These food donations will help out the many families in Lynnfield and neighboring towns who are struggling to fill their kitchen cabinets with groceries.  

Gathering Change, Inc. is partnering with the Feinstein Foundation for their 2013 One Million Dollar Giveaway to Fight Hunger.  The Feinstein Foundation will match a percentage of every pound of food collected during this food drive.  To learn more about the Feinstein Foundation, check out their website, at www.feinsteinfoundation.org or for Gathering Change, Inc. see www.gatheringchangeinc.org.

Many thanks for your support.  

Pictured in photo is the LMS 8th Grade Student Council: Arthur Palelogos in rear, left to right Lilli Patterson, Jessica McGee and Antonia Tammaro.