Rev. Brown students working on Lenten service project

SPARTA — Reverend Brown students and community have chosen Mary’s Meals as their Lenten service project.

Mary’s Meals is an organization that provides meals to more than 900,000 students every day in the most impoverished areas on earth. By providing food in a school setting, the intent of Mary’s Meals is to not only provide students with food, but also, provide it in a school setting to give them a chance at a better future. This grass roots effort involves the whole community in the production and distribution of the meals, offering the adults as well as the children the chance to benefit from these meals.

As a support to Mary’s Meals, Rev. Brown’s K-TAC (kids take action club) have created “Waste Watchers”. Students are asked to give up their habit of discarding good food during lunch.

At the conclusion of lunch each day the food waste will be weighed and the amount recorded on a graph. Students are looking forward to seeing the overall weight of the food waste shrink as awareness of global hunger increases. The second goal of the “Waste Watchers” project is to teach the students they can make a difference for kids their own age around the world.

Students can bring in monetary donations to benefit Mary’s Meals.