The Community Service Corps is asking Archbishop Carroll students to help the needy during Lent by making food donations to the Hibernian Hunger Project, which is run by the Dennis Kelly Division of The Ancient Order of Hibernians, an Irish Catholic fraternal organization.
Carroll has been participating in the Hibernian Hunger Project since 2014.
As part of the project, the CSC began collecting canned goods and other non-perishable food items on March 10. The drive will conclude on Friday, April 11. The food collected will be sent out to pantries and food banks throughout Delaware and Philadelphia counties.
“I honestly don’t have a goal in mind,” said Mr. John Woehlcke, one of the CSC moderators. “I just want us to raise as many pounds of food as we can.”
Nonetheless, the project includes a bit of competition. At the school’s Ash Wednesday Mass, Mrs. Josephine Gandolfo, the campus minister, said she wanted Carroll’s students to bring in more canned goods than Monsignor Bonner-Archbishop Prendergast and Archbishop O’Hara high schools — Carroll’s two Delaware County rivals. In 2022 the schools started competing against one another. Bonner-Prendie and O’Hara typically crush this drive.
Students can bring their canned goods and other non-perishable items to both the campus ministry office and their homerooms.
Some teachers have also said they are offering extra credit for student donations in their classes. These teachers will then pick up the items so that credit can be given to the students who participated.
Ms. Erica Leinhauser is doing this. She is offering 0.25 extra credit points if a student of hers brings in one can of food and one extra credit point will be earned if a student brings in four cans of food. She has the details on the whiteboard behind her desk in her classroom, Room 204.
