iCare Food Drive

why it's important:

Helping 100 is a service-learning club that focuses on homelessness in America. The club pledged 100 volunteer hours at the Atlantic City Rescue Mission, created 100 iCare packages, which were backpacks filled with necessary toiletry items to be distributed to one hundred families living at the Atlantic City Homeless shelter. Other activities included: • Taking 24 women and children from the Atlantic City Rescue Mission on a trip to the Cape May Zoo, have a picnic lunch and give each child a gift • I maintains the Helping 100 web page (www.helping100.com), designed to promote awareness of homelessness and to encourage all to help end homeless and hunger. • Participating in the Turkey Trot for the mission, • Selling Macys’ Cards for the Homeless (raising $500), • Running a iCare Food drive that collected over 5000 food items for the shelter • Raising $1500 for the AC Rescue mission in our fundraiser, “Workout For those Without” at Mainland Fitness Gym, Linwood.

the plan of action:

We ran a food drive in school from November 11, 2007 (in honor of National Hunger and Homeless Awareness Week, 11/11/07-11/17/07) through December 11, 2007. We created a flyer, invited student council to help. We collected food items in K-12 homerooms for 4 weeks. We collected over 5000 items, boxed it up and called the Atlantic City Rescue Mission to come pick it up!

how you can get involved: