Children Form Human Thanksgiving Chain to Help the Hungry

Over 400 students at St. Hilda's & St. Hugh's in west Harlem formed a human chain to hand food items from their school to the nearby Broadway Community soup kitchen on Wednesday. (Amal Chen/The Epoch Times)

NEW YORK—Over 350 kids lined up linking hands as they passed food donations from one to another, from their school to the local food bank at nearby church.

Children from nursery school through the eighth grade from St. Hilda’s & St. Hugh’s, an independent Episcopal school, continued their annual tradition of passing food in a line from their school to the Four Star Soup Kitchen at the Church at Broadway and 114th Street on every Wednesday in November before Thanksgiving.

“We are enormously grateful for your food drive, which supports our Four Star Soup Kitchen,” Michael Ennes, the chef who runs the soup kitchen wrote on the school website. “We could never do it without you. Especially in these recessionary times, when corporate funders step back, it is our community, our friends and volunteers, who step forward. These are hard times, but we approach the New Year with hope and even optimism.”

In forming a line from the school to the nearby church, children passed each item donated from hand to hand until it reached the soup kitchen. The school website says this food chain is to show the children’s compassion for the homeless and the hungry.