Giving Continued…
The annual food drives are a significant part of my family’s charitable contributions. Much to my dismay, the kids new elementary school is not collecting this year. This kicked my 5th grader’s teacher and myself in gear to coordinate our own classroom food drive. The kids are very excited. So, my job is to figure out who to donate the food, too. My first stop was the Sherwood Helping Hands. Well, it turns out that they are well-stocked. This was a bit shocking to me. Evidently, what they really need is a food drive in the spring. That’s when donations start running low. We’re looking into a school-wide effort for that, too 🙂 But, for now, we need a home for our donations and it looks like it will be the Newberg F.I.S.H (Friends in Service of Humanity) The food pantry provides for 363 families (over 1,300 people) in the Newberg area. F.I.S.H. prides itself on providing the necessary basic food items to last a family for 8 to 10 days. Each family can make one trip per month. It’s nice that they base the quantity of food on the number of mouths to feed in the household. Some groups do not adjust the amount of food to the size of the family. F.I.S.H. is very enthusiastic about our donation and even offered to give the kids a tour of the food bank…that could be a very cool teaching opportunity.
