Charlotte Latin dedicated to fighting hunger

Headmaster Arch McIntosh and representatives of the Charlotte Latin

student body join Beverly Howard, executive director of Loaves and Fishes,

for the All-School Thanksgiving Assembly

The Charlotte Latin School community marked the culmination of the School’s All-School Thanksgiving Service Project benefitting Loaves and Fishes during an assembly on Tuesday, Nov. 23. The project resulted in the collection of $4,056 and more than 6,452 canned food items for Loaves and Fishes, which feeds 100,000 people annually in Charlotte-Mecklenburg via a network of 18 food pantries. Beverly Howard, executive director of Loaves and Fishes, thanked the Latin community for its support of the organization. “Loaves and Fishes primarily feeds the working poor, the people who you see everyday but you are unaware of their needs,” she said.

Organized by the Service Learning Committee, students implemented a variety of activities to raise awareness and solicit support for the food drive. Lower School students used the incentive of filling a “visual” pantry with paper cans based upon the number of cans of food that were donated. Middle School students sponsored “can-raisers,” including an iTunes shoot-out, costume day, dress-down days, dress your advisor for the faculty fashion show, homework passes in exchange for cans of food, and a Faculty-Student challenge dodge ball game. Eighth graders also sold cookbooks that they wrote as an English class writing project. Upper School students participated in a hunger simulation to raise awareness of hunger in our community, conducted a bake sale, and grabbed attention with their “Teacher on the Roof” can-raiser.

Headmaster McIntosh thanked the students for their generosity and asked them to continue to serve others as a way of life. “We are a blessed community and should never take it for granted. We must remember our responsibility to continue to serve others,” he stated.

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