MAKING LAS VEGAS A BETTER PLACE TO LIVE
High school kids help with AIDS patients
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Special ed students from Basic High School help out at St. Therese Center Video by ktnv.com
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Las Vegas, NV (KTNV) -- The St. Therese center is fortunate to get pounds of flour, pancake batter, and sugar donated to it's food pantry. And twice a week, special ed students from Basic High School walk here and break these large quantities down into quart-sized bags that can be handed out.
Teacher Michelle Schmachtenberger explains, "Because sitting down and doing reading, writing, and math is not going to benefit these kids. They need to learn to go out in the community, communicate, get job skills so that hopefully when they graduate they will have some skills and be a functioning member in our community."
Father Joseph O'Brien at the St. Therese Center says these students easily save his staff 80 hours a week.
The center offers a slew of programs for people in our community with HIV and AIDS. But it's the food pantry that is perhaps it's most critical service, making what these students do a vital part of the mission here.
Father O'Brien says, "It's giving them skills and we are grateful they are partnering with us to make this a better place to live."
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