Mid-South Food Bank & Partner Agency Building Blocks Mentoring Program 

Presents 

The Project STAND Healthy Food Pantry  

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Project STAND is a SCS Department of Alternative School’s college and career readiness grant for student who have had involvement with juvenile justice.  Project STAND has a mentor-based model with a mission of service and after completing numerous hours of volunteer work with the Mid-South Food Bank, starting this food pantry was the next step. We now have on our campus the opportunity to serve the 38109-zip code by providing food to the families of the 14 schools located in this deserving area of town.

 

Not only will the students of MSCS benefit but the senior citizen community who resides within this area. We are teaching the Project STAND participants that citizenship and service is a part of our responsibility as residents of this beautiful city.  We are also using this pantry as an opportunity to teach the business side of operations. Keeping with the theme of college and career ready, this pantry teaches valuable work readiness skills such as inventory management, warehousing operations and customer service.

 

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