OLOL School helps with the fight against hunger

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Courtesy of Our Lady of Lourdes School

SALT LAKE CITY — The Utah Food Bank relies on 57,000 volunteers a year to help sort donated food items for distribution to the local food pantries. During March, Our Lady of Lourdes students, family members and faculty joined together and worked two separate shifts at the food bank warehouse.

Fifty volunteers sorted approximately 2,500 pounds of non-perishable food items into boxes that will be distributed throughout the state. Children as young as age 5 were able to participate; their job was to sit inside the giant boxes that each contain 600 pounds of non-perishables and help hand items to other volunteers for sorting. "This was an enriching and community building activity for everyone involved," said Christine Bergquist, OLOL principal.

"Students learned firsthand that volunteering can be fun, and that their help is a valuable tool in the in the fight against hunger."