SOS students donate more than 5,000 service hours

This year, Students Organized for Service (SOS) members from Mountain Brook Junior High School helped at the First Light Shelter, worked at Birmingham Zoo events and tutored with the STAIR program to help second-grade students with their reading skills. 

In the fall, the students organized and implemented a shoe drive for Shoes for Students, an organization that sends shoes to Tanzania. Most recently in April, the students collected gently used clothing and household goods for the Right Stuff Thrift Store in Leeds, which provides goods to underserved members of our community, regardless of their ability to pay.

By May 1, MBJH SOS members had donated a total of 5,471 volunteer hours, with 12 students each donating more than 100 volunteer hours.