The Second Harvest Food Drive will continue at school until Oct. 23. The food drive seeks to help struggling families who do not have the means to provide a nice meal during Thanksgiving.

Students can donate canned foods to bins located behind the quad steps. The food will then be delivered to area households.

The community commission, led by head commissioners Isha Mangal and Deepthi Sampathkumar, is hosting this event with the Second Harvest Food Bank.

Last year, the event was cancelled due to a lack of planning. This year, the school had the bins ready on the third week of September and announced the event on Sept. 25 through SHSTV.

“We started planning events the entire summer and came up with a list of charities,” Mangal said. “[The commission] voted to [work with] the Second Harvest Food Bank because we felt confident [about] the organization.”

Although the initial reward for donating to the food drive was class points, the community commission has since decided to instead use a cash incentive in order to entice to donate. The money will go to class funds that can eventually used for Homecoming and dances.

“I really do care about this issue because [I believe] hunger is an important [problem] in our society and a lot of people suffer from this,”  Mangal said. “I’m hoping that people donate as much food as possible.”