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Stuff-A-Bus is a Whitcomb School Community Service Learning Project and a city-wide effort to help support the Marlborough Food Pantry.

Students in all grades collect non-perishable food and personal hygiene items to be distributed to the Marlborough Food Pantry. In addition to this student effort, a School-to-Business committee of volunteers contact just over 100 local business partners to request participation through employee food drives.

The culminating event of this project is the actual stuffing of the bus! After a discussion on hunger and how it affects our community, students help sort and pack donations and load them onto the school bus. During the weekend, the bus is parked in a public location, allowing all community members to visit and donate.

2011 will be the fourth year of this community effort. Last year’s Stuff a Bus yielded over 16,000 pounds of food. This was enough to supply friends and neighbors in our community with food throughout the summer months, a time when the food pantry typically experiences severe shortages.

The Stuff-a-Bus Community Service Learning Project is coordinated by a volunteer staff of parents, teachers and administrators.