Students at Flat Rock Community Schools are organizing a food drive to help families facing food insecurity as uncertainty around SNAP benefits continues to grow.
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Flat Rock students organize food drive amid growing SNAP benefit uncertainty
The student-run initiative partners with the non-profit Helping Hands of Community Lutheran Church to collect canned and boxed food items for families in need throughout the community.
“It’s hard to raise your kids or come to school when you don’t know when your next meal is,” said Drew Wilde, principal of Flat Rock Community High School.
Wilde said the need has never been greater, as concerns about SNAP benefits persist.
“If they don’t have their benefits, you know, they’re only going to get a portion of them, then that means that families are going to have to make some very serious sacrifices, and if we’re able to alleviate some of that for them, that’s what we’ll do as a community,” Wilde said…