antheil school helping
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On Thursday, June 7, 130 members of the Antheil Elementary School Helping Hands Club of Ewing, N.J came to TASK to deliver items made and collected by their school and to tour TASK to learn more about the organization. Donated items included 18 large plastic containers filled with 250 bag lunches, completed hygiene bags, assorted hygiene products, 2,400 washcloths, leftover peanut butter, jelly and juices, socks and other miscellaneous food. The Helping Hands Club is responsible for all service-learning projects at Antheil Elementary School. Every student and teacher is a member. The club’s Student Advisory Board − a dynamic group of fourth-graders and fifth-graders − brainstorm, organize and execute projects to help alleviate hunger and homelessness. Their activities have included support of the “Battle against Hunger” bike-a-thon to Gettysburg, Pa., a drive to aid the victims of Hurricane Katrina and an annual coat drive. The Club also looked at the needs of their own population and created the Antheil Food Pantry in an empty classroom. Students cleaned out the classroom, installed and labeled shelves, decorated the walls with uplifting slogans, sorted the surplus food, and stocked the shelves. Now local families may “shop” at the pantry, as needed. TASK thanks this special group of children and teachers for all their commitment to helping those in need.
And the Antheil children thank TASK for the opportunity to visit!
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