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The food they collected will go to students within the school who need it. If their families are hungry after the school day, they can visit anonymously and fill up their backpacks with extra meals and snacks.

“We were thinking about how unfortunate people in the school don’t get that much food ,so we decided to make a competition between the three of our classes in order to collect food,” student Grace Darrow said.

Students and teachers hope to keep it full.

“It felt good to know that I was helping people who didn’t have as much as I did and what I was doing could be really beneficial to them and could really help them,” student Ruth Hubbard said.

“Their response when they realized what they were capable of doing was that they could easily show compassion to other students in our school and help people, somewhat anonymously, but still feel that empowerment of helping others,” added teacher Michelle Baucom.

APS hopes to highlight projects like this with “November 38th”, named after a typo on the school calendar. They're asking students and staff across the district to show off their acts of kindness on social media this Monday with #Nov38.

“I think it’s really cool that we as a community could come together and raise this much food and money for kids that are less unfortunate in this community,” student Zach Hanosh said.