Student-run Omaha project provides Christmas meals to needy families

Published: 2003-12-23

OMAHA, Neb. (CNS) -- Hundreds of Catholic high school students in Omaha plan to spend about 40 hours organizing and distributing 200,000 pounds of food this Christmas for Operation Others. This year, Operation Others, a 35-year-old project, was expected to reach close to 1,200 Omaha families as well as 340 Native American families on reservations in Nebraska and South Dakota. Operation Others is unique because it is primarily student run, said Marie Angele, campus minister at Daniel J. Gross Catholic High School. "It's a fabulous project," she told The Catholic Voice, newspaper of the Omaha Archdiocese. "I think it's a wonderful way for the Catholic high schools to work together." A core group of 25 students met every Wednesday since September to organize larger group meetings, design T-shirts and plan fund raisers. This year the group raised $30,000.

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