Villa Maria Academy Lower School participated in the Souper Bowl of Caring. The effort was hosted by the school's seventh-graders. The campaign aims to use the energy around the nation's championship professional football game to mobilize and inspire youths to fight hunger and poverty.
Seventh-graders at Villa Maria Academy sponsored a soup and cracker drive to benefit the Weekend Backpack program of the Chester County Food Bank, a program that aims to reach the 20,000 food-insecure school-age children with backpacks of food to be used for meals on the weekends. This collection will directly benefit local children.
The girls designed flyers, wrote and performed announcements, spoke to lower grades and their peers, and encouraged people to participate.
The students gave 100 percent of their donations, totaling 595 pounds, to the Chester County Food Bank. Villa planned to report the school's total to the Souper Bowl of Caring so that its students' efforts become part of the national total.
The collection took place from Jan. 15 through Feb. 4. For more information, readers may visit http://www.tacklehunger.org.
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