Students Collect More Than 10,000 Cans for Local Food Bank

Students from Mill Creek High School have been hard at work in an effort to help needy families this holiday season.

The Mill Creek High School Beta Club set a goal of collecting 7,000 cans of food for Streetwise, a local food bank that directly serves the Mill Creek community. Students met and far exceeded that goal by collecting 10,328 cans during the door-to-door drive, which was held Oct. 21 through Nov. 7.

"StreetWise is extraordinarily grateful to the Mill Creek Beta Club and Seniors for their outstanding donation of over 10,000 food items," wrote Streetwise volunteer coordinator Royale Cole in an email to Dacula Patch. "Their hard work and generosity is going forth to serve a multitude of needy families throughout the community during this Holiday season."

According to Gwinnett County Public Schools, the items collected will help feed families within a 10-mile radius of Mill Creek High School.

The freshman and sophomore Beta Club members gathered 5,634 items and the juniors and seniors collected 4,694 during the drive. Members of the Beta Club, a national service-based honor society, pledge to complete a set amount of community service hours per semester.

For more information about Streetwise, click here.