Students, faculty and staff from St. John’s Catholic School in Brunswick lined up on a dreary Tuesday morning, forming a human chain from the school to the Mid Coast Hunger Prevention Program building, all while passing donated food items from hand to hand.
The annual display of community contributed dozens of boxes worth of food items to MCHPP, which will go toward local families facing food insecurity. The chain stretched from the school on Pleasant Street along Union Street and to the doors of the MCHPP building on Tenney Way.
A tradition for more than 20 years, the “food pass” engages kids in service and social responsibility, a release from the school said.
“This event is one of the most meaningful parts of our school year,” Principal John Yorkey said in a prepared statement. “It teaches our students the importance of community, service and the impact we can have when we work together.”
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