By: Nada Abdullah
The
Fall Food and Clothing Drive run by our Seventh Grade Community Service
Elective “Do Something” brought in food, clothing and toys for
distribution to people in need in the Cambridge community.
According to club member Abdirahman Abdulle, it was a great thing to
do, and he “felt happy helping less fortunate” people. The donations
were slow to start but the club extended the time for donating and that
helped, according to Abdulle, but he wished more people donated. He said
that most of the clothing was for girls, but there was some boys
clothing, and some winter coats and other warm clothing.
The food collected was donated to Project Uplift, which operates a
food pantry which serves dinner in Central Square. There are rules that
the organization adheres to for accepting donations-no food past its
“sell by” date, for instance.
The group hopes to visit the soup kitchen and help prepare and serve food.