Deer Creek Christian Academy donates to, visits SEMO Food Bank

During Advent, students at Deer Creek Christian Academy in Cape Girardeau collected nonperishable food items, creating a "wall of giving" in the school hallway. On Jan. 24, the students delivered the food to the SEMO Food Bank. They toured the facility and learned about how the food bank network operates. The students watched a video produced by Southeast Missouri State University students and learned about how donations into the food bank are sorted, packaged and shipped to area food pantries. Food bank staff members explained how corporate donors, the USDA and private donations of food, time and money keep the food bank operating. The students left the food bank with a better understanding of how the community can come together and cooperate to help those in need.