Nichols Hosting Food Drive to Benefit Afghan Refugees

11/9/2021

This year, Nichols School kicks off the season of giving with an all-school project led by Service and Social Justice Coordinators Kevin Powers and Caitlin Crowell and seniors Emmy Franz '22 and Clare Mooney '22.

Nichols Middle and Upper Schools are teaming up to run a food drive to assemble "Welcome Boxes" to help incoming refugees.

We will pack up boxes of food that families can use as they work to settle into our community. Our friends at Journey's End Refugee Services provided us a list of what would be most helpful, and we are asking that different grades bring in different shelf-stable items:

5th & 12th Grade - rice; curry; tomato paste

6th & 11th Grade - cooking oil (canola or vegetable); olive oil

7th & 10th Grade - sugar; flour

8th & 9th Grade - salt & pepper; cookies (store-bought)

Donations can be dropped off at the bins outside the Middle School and Upper School Front Offices or to Mr. Powers and Ms. Crowell's rooms.

We also welcome Tops gift cards in any denomination, which are tremendously helpful to these new families and allow them to buy fresh meat, fruit, and vegetables.

Families are encouraged to help the Parents' Association, which has graciously offered to provide the bins in which we'll pack this food. We will need 35 Sterilite bins.

Nichols students have already been doing wonderful work to raise money for Buffalo United for Afghan Refugees, the consortium that has organized to help welcome and accommodate the influx of new Buffalonians from Afghanistan. You can read about this group here. We are proud of all the students, and the way they are leading us in this heart work.

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