Over 40 students from both Kennedy HS and the DuSable Campus served the greater Chicago community at the Greater Chicago Food Depository this afternoon. The GCFD is dedicated to ending hunger in Cook Country by providing both immediate assistance and education for community member and partner agencies. Through food pantries, soup kitchens and focused aid to needy neighborhoods, the GCFD is able to reach nearly half a million people a year.
Our students spent the afternoon working in the ‘clean room.’ This is an area of the warehouse were bulk items can be safely sorted into smaller sized bags. Our students sorted corn flakes into eight ounce bags. Different students were responsible for putting the cornflakes into bags, weighting the bags, then sealing them, next some students labeled the bags and finally a last group of student packed the bags into boxes. 
Together our students made 2,688 bags of 8 oz cornflakes or 1446 pounds of food! Not only was this activity fun for the students, but we were able to see a massive volume of work completed!
Thanks to Maya Garcia Warner, the Volunteer Services Coordinator and the Greater Chicago Food Depository for allowing to spend the afternoon at the distrubtion center!
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