“Sometimes starting new projects is like getting fifty cats to walk down the street together…” says Charles James, campus kitchen coordinator at St. Andrew’s in Potomac, Md.

James is working to make St. Andrew’s our third high school-based Campus Kitchen while simultaneously coordinating a service project for MLK Day.

“St. Andrew’s is the type of school where students and staff alike form a line to serve” says James. “Because they value the benefits of community, the school encourages students to lead lives of responsibility to each other and to the larger community.”

That’s why students and staff at St. Andrews chose to start a Campus Kitchen and conduct a service project in honor of MLK Day 2010.

What makes St. Andrew’s MLK Day project unique? They will be doing a semester-long pilot run of their Kitchen which is set to open in September 2010. On January 18, 2010 the students will gather to carry out a food drive at a local grocery store, make 250 toiletry kits and prepare their first 75 hot and bagged lunches for participants at Bethesda Cares.

After their MLK Day kick-off, students will continue to serve 75 lunches per week to the Bethesda Cares meal program. The students will be involved every step of the way from managing the program to preparing and serving the meals.

“This project is about the St. Andrew’s community being dissatisfied with the famine of food, the famine of dignity and the famine of hope that exists within our region,” says James

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