Students Make Leap Day Lunches for the Homeless

On Leap Day, students at Our Lady of Lourdes Catholic School prepared 171 lunches as part of a schoolwide service project for the temporary residents of Pinellas Hope, a shelter supported by Catholic Charities of St. Petersburg.

Each student brought a grocery item — a loaf of bread, a package of deli meat or cheese, or a bag of pretzels, and they were encouraged to use their own allowance to buy it. With their food items out on tables, the entire student body — 207 students at Our Lady of Lourdes Catholic School — gathered around Rev. Gary Dowsey in the cafeteria at around 8:30 a.m. on Leap Day 2012. He told them: “Whatever we do for the least of our sisters and brothers, we do for Jesus.” Then he dispatched them into assembly lines to prepare 150 sack lunches as part of an annual schoolwide service project for the residents of Pinellas Hope, a temporary shelter supported by Catholic Charities Diocese of St. Petersburg. Each grade was assigned a specific task: the…

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