Midnight Runners

I recently traveled to Albany with our schools student government for a leadership conference. There I received tons of information and different ideas that we could implement within our own high school. One idea stood out to me the most, a program called "The Midnight Runners." One of the other high schools that had attended this conference implemented this program in order to fight poverty and hunger.

They would organize a food drive within their school and collect everything they could. They would choose a date and on that day load up a bus full of students and the food collected. When it was close to midnight they would travel into NYC to Central Park. There they would break up into groups and hand out the food to the less fortunate, in hopes of spreading not only nutrition but a sense of hope.

Although this idea may not be the most practical I thought it inspiring. It is good to know that there are people who are trying to make a difference and that we have not totally lost the war on poverty.