RAPID CITY, S.D. — Even the smallest gesture could make a distinction, one thing students in the Rapid City Catholic Schools have been studying throughout their annual Packing Hope Program.
For the thirteenth 12 months, students packed the St. Elizabeth Seton gymnasium as they ready meals for these in want.
The program was began by an Iowa non-profit in 2007, and in the 13 years they’ve been collaborating, they’ve packed and despatched over 1,000,000 meals.
This 12 months, students in all grades labored collectively to pack meals and break final 12 months’s document of 125,000.
“Our aim this 12 months is 140,000 meals. That is our greatest quantity up to now,” sophomore at St. Thomas More Morgan Simonds stated. “The final 12 months that we did this, we received 128,000. So, it’s type of a giant soar, however I believe we will do it.”
Students and employees look ahead to the occasion yearly, a day of enjoyable and reflection throughout the Lenten season.
“From a younger age we’re influenced by doing good in the world and that actually simply is an superior factor to have at a younger age and that’s an incredible factor to do and proceed to do all through your entire life,” Simonds stated. “We actually tie it into God. We normally do it round Lent yearly simply to offer it as much as God by means of all of our struggles and every little thing. So it’s a blessing to have the ability to have a program like this come to our faculty and be capable to do it in school.”
All of the meals packed will go to orphanages and people in want in Honduras.
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