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Our Philabundance Partnership
We are only one week into our annual food drive for Philabundance, and already many of the classroom collection bins are filling up. Tied to our fall harvest celebration–Apple Day–the food drive is a way to help alleviate hunger and food insecurity among Delaware Valley families, and a way to educate our own children about community service and social justice.
While many independent and public schools conduct charitable drives, SRV's approach is a little different. Over the last several years, we have been developing an educational approach to the food drive that we hope engages children and families in a deep and meaningful way. Rather than emphasizing our own community's privilege and taking a stance of pity toward those who are less fortunate, we are working with children at their developmental level to understand the food drive in terms of fairness. Ultimately, our hope is that children will see themselves as allies to those in need and as agents of social justice.
Education around the food drive began with a multi-age Apple Day All School Choice group creating original posters and writing and acting out a skit to announce the drive to the school community. Over the next days and weeks, we will conduct classroom simulations around food and income inequity and explore the work of the Philabundance organization. Where possible, learning about the food drive will be integrated into social skills, social studies, and math curricula.
Please support your children's developing social conscience by contributing some canned or dry food to the Philabundance drive. Take a few minutes to talk about the drive with your child, and if possible, allow him or her to choose the food to contribute. The drive is scheduled to go until November 1st. For more information about Philabundance, please visit their website at www.philabundance.org.
