7A Grade Sandwich Makers and Toiletry Collection

by Trevor Meeker

Chatham Day School 7A class has been making sandwiches for the past eight weeks Every Friday, 7A meets in Mrs Greenspan's room during EOL With donated supplies, the group gets to work and makes over 40 sandwiches each week. Once the sandwiches are done, they are taken to a site in Newark for distribution on Saturdays The group learned of the great need for food on days when many soup kitchens and school cafeterias are closed and wanted to help make an impact.

The class’s final goal is to make 500 sandwiches by the end of the year They are very close to hitting their goal. On some Fridays their 2nd grade buddy class has partnered up with them or taken on the task when the 7th graders were pulled away for CDS Presents As of press time, they have one more day of sandwich-making left.

In addition to this work, the group conducted a school-wide toiletry drive upon return from spring break

Again, they called on their buddy class to help sort the massive amount of donations and make toiletry kits They even went to every class in the school to ask for students to use their art skills to decorate the bags with positive and cheerful images and messages.

We interviewed E Knerr and Yamilet Merchan about the sandwich-making process and everything involved in making these sandwiches.

Question: What is the process of making the sandwiches?

E: We get the bread out and then put the sun butter and jelly on and put them together and bag them. For the cheese sandwiches, we do the same thing with an assembly line

Yamilet: We split up into two groups but for the group I was in we laid out the pieces of bread and one person puts jelly on the bottom row and someone put the sun butter on the top then the last person bags the sandwich