Students at UCC aren’t letting the pandemic get in their way of helping others.
The high school’s annual Halloween for Hunger campaign was kept in-house this year because of the pandemic.
Rather than going door-to-door, students ran a grade-level competition, collecting over 2100 items for the local food bank.
Executive Director at Outreach for Hunger, Brenda LeClair says this is always a busy time of year for community groups they’re feeling the pinch.
She says while donations are starting to pick up, they will be looking at a long winter season and can use all the help they can get.
“We’re really going to be counting on the community to bring donations in or to arrange for pick-ups,” LeClair says. COVID has really hurt our food drives, people aren’t gathering the way they would normally be gathering and holding food drives for us, it’s taking on a whole different picture this year.”
UCC’s Grade 9s were the winners of the in-school food drive competition, bringing in more than 600 food items. As a reward, they are being granted a special casual dress day.