Lincoln School Students Join in 'Souper Bowl of Caring'

The Garwood Public Schools held their fifth annual "Souper" Bowl Monday event, joining the movement that is transforming Super Bowl weekend into the nation’s largest youth-led weekend of giving and serving.

“Souper Bowl of Caring” equips and mobilizes schools to positively impact their communities by collecting money or food on or near Super Bowl weekend. By using the event as a time to help others, the students are learning about the realities of hunger in their own neighborhoods and are turning one of the nation’s universal times of celebration into an opportunity to care for those in need.

The Lincoln School collected and donated 250 items of food to a local food pantry in partnership with the Garwood Knights of Columbus. In 2012, more than 7,000 groups participated collecting over 2,756,512 pounds of food and raising more than 3 million dollars to help local charities and food pantries around the world.