We can raise a ton more than that. Last fall, Project Bread recognized the middle school students with an Appreciation Award for their efforts. The school s family and consumer sciences class is making survival kits with bandages, sunscreen, energy bars and other necessities. Last week, the students began selling paper sneakers, which are posted in the school s lobby. The shoe colors white, pink, blue and yellow correspond to pledge amounts.
Orange shoes represent businesses with larger donations.
Whichever class had the most shoes up could have a pizza party. Thanks to the fact-packed posters the kids hung all over campus, the classes will remember the walk s importance long after they ve polished off their pizzas. The walk is one of the leading sources of funding for emergency food programs in the state, said Merzbacher. Project Bread supports nearly 400 soup kitchens, food pantries, food banks and food salvage programs in 129 Massachusetts communities. Most students are very unaware of issues of hunger.