Not every kid in America is on TikTok all day.

Some cheerfully and willingly come out to do good, like the ones who help collect the backpacks that go to Central High School for the 70-plus families who go there for food support.

These are awfully nice people; I met them this afternoon.

In this post, I pay homage to the young heroes at the Cambridge Food Pantry, who help the children who need help by collecting their backpacks and bringing them to the school for distribution.

These are not the kids who need the food; they are the ones who take time out to help the kids who need it get it. They are heroes to me.

(All this weekend, the food of need is Prego Traditional No Sugar Added Pasta Sauce, 23.5 Oz: jar (Case of 6), $16.74. )

I’m stepping back for the weekend. We’ll resume the food-in-need list on Monday or Sunday evening if I get restless. Sarah has been trying to get Prego back on the shelves for weeks. I hope we can help her.

In the meantime, you can check out the Wish List any time this weekend if you can. Everything on the list represents foods the pantry needs and has been running out of.

I buy two items every week. It helps me to plan, and it always feels good.

I went to the school with Sarah Harrington, the Director of the Food Pantry, this afternoon.

I’ve been writing about and photographing the good people behind the scenes who make the pantry work, and I don’t want to forget these 4th and 5th graders who volunteer to help get the food to the families and children who go to the pantry.

I’m not using their names because the Internet is sometimes the Internet, but they were happy and eager (their parents, too) to be photographed and recognized. They are a great bunch of humans.

They are also now members of the Army Of Good.

 

 

 

I loved meeting these very cheerful and eager people. They came to the car to meet Zinnia, whom they loved and who loved them back.

After unloading the pantry wagon, they hauled the packs back into the school, where they would be discreetly picked up by the pantry families and brought home.

I just wanted people in the Army of Food to see their faces. Children want to do good as much as adults, so I guess they are already in the Army Of Good. They are very grateful for your help. We are very thankful for theirs.

They are at the heart of the country, which is what America is about.

 

More good news: This afternoon, a fresh load of boxes from the Army of Good landed in the pantry Friday afternoon. It ebbs and flows,  as it should, but mostly it flows. Thank you.

Please check out the Prego Pasta Sauce. It’s on the Cambridge Pantry Amazon Wish List.