Project 300 is rolling, and organizers would love your participation either through providing non-perishable food items or just through donations.
This year’s drive kicked off January 13th and runs through the 21st. It features a great group of kids looking to push the limits with how many items are collected. In the process, they’re also aiming to reach an amazing milestone; more than one million items collected over a 50-year period!
To reach that mark, the students/community will need to collect 26,843 items this year. As part of those efforts, they’ve created collection contests between grades, students and teachers. They’ve also organized a poetry contest, poster contest and t-shirt design contest.
Project 300 is the largest student run food drive in the state and likely all of New England.
The drive originated 49 years ago with a goal to collect 300 non-perishable food items to help feed veterans and those less fortunate. Though the date has changed (it was usually run the week of Veteran’s Day in November), the goal is the same; help support those in our area in need.
Over the years, the students have really taken the food drive to a new level, collecting anywhere from 26,000 to 32,000 non-perishable food items that are given annually to the Salvation Army in Lowell and the local food pantry to feed families in the Merrimack valley.
Donations can be dropped off in the mornings, between 7:30-8:15am in the small gym of McCarthy Middle School, or afternoons at the front door of the school. 100% of the donations go to the cause.
