Two Oxford sisters held their annual Little Friendsgiving
Hazel, 11, started the annual drive seven years ago at age 4 after seeing a man without a home. She and her sister Alice collected food with Lighthouse for families across Southeast Michigan.
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Hazel, 11, and her sister Alice held their annual Little Friendsgiving food drive in Oxford, WXYZ reported. Hazel started it seven years ago, at age 4, after she saw a man who did not have a home. This year the sisters gathered food with Lighthouse for families across Southeast Michigan. The collection is the yearly drive she began then. The food is what they gathered, and Lighthouse is the group that gets it to those families.
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Hazel and Alice, two sisters in Oxford, Michigan, held their annual Little Friendsgiving food drive, WXYZ reported. Hazel is 11. She started the drive seven years ago, when she was 4, after she saw a man who did not have a home. This year the sisters collected food with Lighthouse, a group that helps families across Southeast Michigan. The drive is the yearly collection she began then. The food is for those families.
- How can a drive that started at age 4 still be going at age 11?
- Why do food drives need a partner group, not only a box on a porch?
- What is one thing a family might need that a bag of food can help with?
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