Food Pantry Run By Students Serves Community Members In Howard County

HOWARD COUNTY, MD — Every month, members of the community drive through the Oakland Mills High School parking lot to gather food and supplies from the school's food pantry, which was established in 2017 to help address food insecurity.

“We have an algebra class that bags up donations; we have honor societies who rotate our stock, sort through donations and put items on shelves; we have teachers who shop for and bring in food and supplies and deliver them to families in need who don’t have transportation,” says Niklas Berry, who teaches history at OMHS and is one of the food pantry’s lead organizers.

“It really is a full school project,” adds OMHS world language teacher Ashleigh Magrin, who manages the day-to-day logistics of the food pantry. “And we are constantly exploring ways to involve more students and staff.”

OMHS’ Junior Reserve Officers’ Training Corps (JROTC) cadets are among the school groups that are most actively involved in the food pantry. Read more about the school's food pantry at https://news.hcpss.org/news-po...