The Lemonade Sales Team for WOW!

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This highly competent Lemonade Sales Team was hard at work Sunday afternoon for WOW. Weekend On Wheels, is just one of the many wonderful programs offered by the Maplewood-Richmond Heights School District. Not familiar with WOW? Read below what the MRH website has to say about it.

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“In a school district where over 50% of the student population qualify for free or reduced lunch prices, it begs the question of what families can afford to feed children when they are not in school. For some students, the last meal of the week comes on Friday in the form of a government-aided free lunch from the school’s cafeteria.

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To combat this problem, the Maplewood Richmond Heights School District created Weekend on Wheels (WOW). Each weekend throughout the school year, MRH students and staff pack nutritious food into rolling suitcases and give to needy children and families attending MRH schools.

The district-wide WOW Steering Committee is comprised of high school students representing a cross section of the student population, and MRH staff from each of the District’s schools.

WOW also hosts a monthly event called Mouths of Babes in partnership with Parents as Teachers in the MRH Teen Kitchen at the High School. The purpose is to bring young moms together in an encouraging environment to prepare hot, healthy, satisfying, and efficient meals for their families. The mothers are either currently attending MRH High School or are recent graduates juggling work, school, and the financial strains of raising a family. The Mouths of Babes program relies on the WOW food pantry and monetary donations.

In order to continue these weekly programs, the WOW Steering Committee works to develop fundraising strategies while still collecting, shopping, packing suitcases, and working with local churches to secure donations for families in need within our community.”

Amazing! Those of us who aren’t hungry on the weekends should follow the example set by the Lemonade Sales Team and do all we can to help these folks.
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