The students of Monsignor Edward Pace High School (Pace) proudly inherited a long standing tradition in an endeavor to help feed Miami’s homeless community.
Fourty-two Pace students participated in the school’s very first annual Hunger Fest event on April 27 and 28. This event was introduced to Pace by transfer students of Archbishop Curley Notre Dame Prep, where Hunger Fest originated and was a standing tradition for 21 years, until the school closed its doors last summer.
Over the span of 27 hours, students went without food while only drinking water as they prayed together, prepared sandwiches and delivered the lunches to local homeless shelters. The purpose of the weekend was to engage in prayer while raising awareness to those suffering in hunger and poverty in our local community and around the world.
The students, together with Pace staff, faculty and individuals who were actively involved in Archbishop Curley’s previous Hunger Fest’s, packed over 2,300 lunches for the homeless and raised over $1,000 for Pace’s three sister schools in Haiti.