Students collect 9,215 food items for City Harvest
Donations hit milestone for Murrow High School
The generosity of Edward R. Murrow High School students knows no bounds. The school’s students recently hit a new milestone for their annual food drive, collecting and then donating an astonishing 9,215 food items to City Harvest, an organization that helps to feed the needy.
Founded in 1982, City Harvest is a nonprofit organization that collects food from restaurants, grocers, bakeries and other sources and then delivers the food to community food programs throughout the city for free.
City Harvest helps feed the more than 1 million New Yorkers that face hunger, according to the organization’s website, cityharvest.org. Several years ago, City Harvest established Healthy Neighborhoods programs to provide access to fruits and vegetables as well as nutrition education to residents of low-income neighborhoods.