About 150 St. Patrick's High School students are serving Easter Dinner to those in need Wednesday.
Grade 9 students raised money, planned the menu and are cooking the food for a meal at the Inn of the Good Shepherd.
Religion teacher Danielle Kells said it's a good life lesson for the students.
"So our hope was by planning and prepping and serving an Easter Dinner, our students would become more intimately connected with the realities of poverty," said Kells. "Then that's something that we hope really gets them working more justice initiatives so that we can work towards eradicating poverty, as opposed to just addressing it through a meal."
Kells said the school received $1,500 from the Innovative Learning Fund for the initiative and hopes to continue the campaign in the future.
"Having that money available, we got to brainstorming about where they would experience the most impact for students learning, and we thought that it would be best if they had a first-hand experience of real-life people who face daily struggles," said Kells. "Just to be able to expose them to those very real, difficult realities that some in our community face every day."
Kells said students also made placemats and Easter baskets to be raffled off, they did budgeting for the meal and prepared the advertisements and the tickets for the families.
St. Patrick's Catholic High School in Sarnia.
