Photo Credit: Yearbook Reflections Staff. SoSA members collect food.[/caption]Orange High School has a new club this year thanks to sophomore student Emily Cunningham. SoSA, otherwise known as the Society of Saint Andrews, is a Christian-based food drive organization that helps families in need around the community. When asked about the club, Brian Parker, who is the leader of the club, said, “We started the club to help feed families in poverty.”
The first fundraiser that they participated in was during Ag Day. All of the proceeds went to families for their Thanksgiving feasts. They were able to raise $178 during their first fundraiser.
They started collecting food two weeks before Ag Day, and the non-perishable food items that they collected were macaroni noodles and spaghetti.
The members hope to continue running this organization and be able to participate in a practice called gleaning. This is the art of collecting leftover crops from farmers’ fields and distributing them throughout the food drive to help families that have nothing to eat.
Since this is only a first-year club, they have to continue to work hard to make ends meet. “We only began this year, so we hope to give more to more people, and have more success in the near future,” said Parker.
In the upcoming spring months, they hope to make enough money for next year’s club, and make enough of a profit that they can donate to the national SoSA organization.
For a first-year club, they have big plans for the upcoming months. In the near future, they hope to have raised enough money to contribute to other food drives.
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