WINSTON-SALEM — Breakfast cereal. It’s something we all take for granted, but for families experiencing food insecurity, cereal can be an expense that’s hard to afford on a regular basis.

Students at Our Lady of Mercy Catholic School have been determined to help families in need as part of the school’s year-long 50 Acts of Charity initiative. For National Nutrition Month in March, the school community collected boxes of breakfast cereal – 110 boxes in all! – that they then donated to Crisis Control Ministry. The Wee Care! Cereal Drive helped to stock the ministry’s food pantries in Winston-Salem and Kernersville that serve more than 200 families a month.

“It is heartwarming to see how much our families care and are willing to help those in need,” said the school’s principal, Sister Geri Rogers, SSJ.

— Catholic News Herald