A 9-year-old turned his birthday into a 500-bag food giveaway
Alex Anning of Tinley Park, who had seen a man without food, led a birthday food drive with the Montessori School of Englewood and partners. The giveaway packed 500 bags.
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Alex Anning, a 9-year-old from Tinley Park, turned his birthday into a food giveaway after seeing a man who did not have food, NBC Chicago reported. Working with the Montessori School of Englewood and other partners, the drive produced 500 bags.
The giveaway was in Englewood. Five hundred bags is the count for this birthday project, and the school and partners are what turned one student's idea into a distribution that size.
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Alex Anning is 9 and lives in Tinley Park, Illinois. After he saw a man who did not have food, he turned his birthday into a food drive instead of keeping the day only for presents. With the Montessori School of Englewood and other partners, the drive gave away 500 bags of food in Englewood, a Chicago neighborhood. Five hundred bags is the size of this giveaway. Alex is the student who started it, and the school and partners helped it grow big enough to fill those bags.
- Why might a birthday be a good time to collect food?
- What can partners add that one child cannot do alone?
- How is a bag of groceries different from a single snack?
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