The project was an exercise in community service for parents and students at 3 schools: Oak Knoll Elementary in Menlo Park, Costano Elementary in East Palo Alto, and the San Francsico 49ers Academy, a middle school that shares a campus with Costano.

We thought it’d be great to do something as a community, remarked Ms. Smith, whose 4 kids attend Oak Knoll Elementary in Menlo Park. She commented that even though students at the 3 schools live in an area that shares the same public high school, they do not have much chance to interact with each other.

It was pretty amazing, she stated of the quantity of supplies the students gathered.