Service project provides food for families in need

A Mt. Scott High School student service group is focusing on ways people living in poverty obtain access to much-needed food for themselves and their families.

Entitled "Getting Food to the Table," the year-long service project involves students working with local service agencies that assist the elderly, working families, people with disabilities, children, immigrants and refugees.

Students will begin the year picking fruit from neighborhood trees so it can be canned and donated to low-income families. Mt. Scott is working with the Portland Fruit Tree Project, which organizes people in the Portland community to gather fruit before it falls, and then make this valuable resource available to families in need.

The next volunteer project for this group will involve working for Loaves and Fishes, a nearby organization that cooks and serves hot meals for senior citizens and recent refugees and immigrants who don’t have the resources to cook for themselves. Students will volunteer to serve food in the Loaves and Fishes kitchen, or they will participate in a Meals-on-Wheels route, where hot meals are brought to elderly people unable to leave their home.

Finally, students in this group will volunteer with Store to Door, an elderly and disabled shopping service that provides personal grocery shopping and delivery service for people unable to leave their home.

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