Tiffany Greene, Your Kids
With immigration being a hot topic during this political season, some students are tackling the social side of things.
News 13's Tiffany Greene explains how a community service project is helping migrant workers and their children.
Samir Ketema, a ninth grader, picked up a can of peaches that will help to feed a fellow student and that student's family.
Through a class project called ICARE, which stands for Immigrant Community Appreciation, Reading and Education Program, Samir and his classmates are stuffing backpacks with some food, gift cards and more to give to those in need.
"We provide them with food of all different types like starches, proteins, we just really want to get a good feel for them. A lot of people who migrated over here to this country have a lot of problems," Ketema said.
"I know people who went through this but don't get this much help," said Lori Sankar, a ninth grader.
The school district created a Migrant Education program, giving aid and support to dozens of migrant students.
Although the students at Cypress Creek never met their peers, they wanted to do something to help. So a period of a couple of months, the conducted fundraiser to to be able to buy all the items for the backpacks.
"I'm interested in helping my students learn about social justice not just a band aid approach and donating a backpack but learning how you can prevent migrants workers from such instability in terms of their income and their livelihood in America," said Nicole Boujaber-Deiderichs, a global studies teacher.
In addition to the 25 backpacks, the students got a chance to see what it was really like to be a migrant worker. They went out in the fields and picked cabbage, which will actually feed more than 40,000 people.
Through the ICARE project, students at Cypress Creek help migrant youth with tutoring, English language proficiency and creating a social network.
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