Chicago’s Owen Scholastic Academy students help feed homeless community on Global Youth Service Day

“It is not honest that the homeless do not have anyplace to go and haven’t any meals and stuff,” stated scholar Navea Withers.

Younger children spent their Saturday placing collectively a whole lot of packages containing meals and hygiene kits. The package deal have been despatched on to areas of want all throughout the town.

“My college students truly got here up with this concept in 2016 after we have been finding out the results of homelessness, and the way we will truly attempt to resolve these issues,” stated By no means McLeod, Owen Academy trainer.

“You form of simply need to assist out and it feels good to assist out,” stated scholar Juana Turner. “That is how I really feel and I feel all people feels that means once you simply get to assist out and that you simply did one thing good.”

It is a custom that continues to develop on the faculty and one the children are completely happy to be part of.

“It is essential to be doing this as a result of there’s folks on the market that do not have what different folks have and I similar to to assist,” stated scholar Lourdes Williams.

It is an act of kindness that can feed at the very least 100 folks and fulfill a determined want that’s obvious all throughout Chicago.

“We’ve got folks struggling. We have been on the level now the place we needed to , vote on fuel playing cards to even assist folks out,” stated Ald. Derrick Curtis, 18th Ward. “However little small issues folks do not find out about which is the requirements.”