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HCC students donate food hampers to local homeless shelter
Posted 24th January 2012
A group of Hackney Community College students showed that charity does indeed start at home when they donated items from their cupboards to a local homeless shelter.
Students, on the 14-16 On Track programme at HCC, prepared two food hampers for the St Peter’s Crypt Night Shelter based in De Beauvoir Road.
The hampers, which will help towards feeding the shelter’s users in the coming months, was presented to shelter manager Barbara Walshe on Monday 23 January.
Student John Maughan, aged 14, said: “It made me feel really good to know that I was helping people.”
Chloe Sailsman, also aged 14, added, “I got involved because I thought it would be a good cause and other people should be helped. I put posters up around the college to get as much support as possible.”
The young students campaigned tirelessly for the charity over the last few months and encouraged fellow students and staff to contribute to its worthy cause.
St Peter’s Crypt Night Shelter provides hot food, a bed and breakfast for 15-18 homeless people every Monday night during January- March. The shelter is run by volunteers and funded by donations.
Learning support assistant Wendy Monksfield said: “I, myself, regularly volunteer at the night shelter and I know what a difference this donation will make. I am so proud of our students!”
To find out more about volunteering with the charity or to make a donation click here
