Hurtado delivers 3,000 pounds of food this month

Students from the sleep-out on Friday brave the weather and load a Prep van full of food.

March went out like a lion at the Prep.

Last Friday, March 20th, volunteers at the Prep's homeless sleep-out donated 1,115 pounds to North Philadelphia's Mander Recreational facility.  Today, Thursday March 26, the Hurtado team donated over 600 pounds to St. Francis Inn and My Brother's House, which is part of the Bethesda Project.  

Adding up the month's earlier donations (as well as over 30 pounds of candy that were collected for Mission and Ministry), the Hurtado food pantry removed approximately 3,000 pounds of food from its shelves this month.

On March 19th, Noelle Dames, the Community Educator for the Coalition Against Hunger, visited the Hurtado Food Pantry and was impressed by our community's efforts to fight hunger.

The Coalition Against Hunger is an incredible organization that keeps data on hundreds of pantries in their Food Pantry Network, and advocates for the hungry in our community.  They recently reported that "In Philadelphia alone, the number of people relying on food pantries has more than doubled over the past five years. More than one-third of them are children."

Dames told us that she is "so impressed with the ongoing generosity of the Prep community" and hopes that some students might be interested in participating in their Hunger Walk on April 11.

"Stroehmann Bakeries is sponsoring a High School Challenge - they will award two high schools with the highest number of run registrants a cash prize for their school. See details via the link: http://www.hungercoalition.org/hungerwalk/stroehmann-high-school-challenge"

Volunteers and participants are still needed for this event!  Contact Evan Mazmanian for more information.

On Thursday March 19th Preppers donated 337 pounds of healthy food  ... and 31 pounds of Easter Candy!

Preppers Evan Mazmanian, '15, and Pat Gillespie, '16, met with Noelle Dames from the Coalition Against Hunger

Preppers Paul Browne, Andrew Devany, and Jimmy Hegarty (all class from the class of 2017) brave the snow to deliver over 1,000 pounds of food in a packed Prep van.

Brendan Heenan, '16, Pete Ramirez, '17, and Pat Gillespie, '16, pack food for St. Francis Inn and My Brother's House. 

Pat Gillespie, '16 slides food down to St. Francis Inn Team Member Kevin Cilano.

Special thanks to those members of the Prep community who donated goods, and those who donated their time including Sophomores Paul Browne, Ronald Cavalier, Andrew Devany, Pat Dever, Jimmy Hegarty, John Kromchad, Chris Mayer, James McGinnis, Liam Pie, William Ryan, Jack Strohman, Pete Ramirez; Juniors Brendan Heenan, Pat Gillespie, and Senior Evan Mazmanian.  Also thank you to Mr. Rob Cermignano, '10, Sam Deitch, Jose Gonzalez, Sonia Nelson.