Frosh and Seniors Head Out for a Day of Service

Another 50 stayed close to home, working in the Dining Hall on another true team effort— an assembly line production of 10,000food packets in support of “Rise Against Hunger.” The group’s work will eventually find its way to countries in desperate need of food resources, like Haiti, Swaziland, Gambia and Madagascar. Teams put together precisely measured packets of rice, dehydrated vegetables, soy powder and micro-vitamins, that overseas recipients will boil and add to with items suitable to their local taste palates.
    Other smaller groups headed out in Prep buses for a variety of smaller scale projects— two dozen students visited the Canterbury Nursing home down the road in West Orange to provide conversation and entertainment for the residents; other groups spread out to three sites in West Orange and Newark to help on projects for Catholic Community Services, while other students helped with chores at Newark’s Mercy house for Mothers and for Elizabeth Coalition for the homeless.
   Back on campus the SHP Wounded Warrior Project Club, after viewing the movie Hacksaw Ridge, wrote letters of thanks and support to more than 40 members of VFW Post 2619, serving veterans in Roseland and the Caldwells. They were guided in their task by SHP faculty Dave Giarrusso, Julie Wester and Prep staff member Marine vet Tom Ronnie.  
[view photos from the work at the FoodBank]