- Date of the project: 12/10/2017 - Number of registered Scouts participating: 25 - Number of non-Scouts (brothers, sisters, friends): 9 - Number of adult leaders participating: 3 - Number of other adults participating: 18 - Total hours worked (number of workers times the number of hours they worked): in excess of 220 hours - Organizations that joined on the project: NATO Petty Officer’s Association, NATO Top Three, Girls Scout Troop 76 - Who or what organization benefited from the project: The Samaritans and Nativitas - Number of items collected (if applicable): well over 3000 individual food items Narrative: Cub Scout Pack 457 partnered with the NATO Petty Officer’s Association, NATO Top Three and Girls Scout Troop 76 to conduct a food drive for The Samaritans holiday "shoe-box campaign" for the homeless and the Nativitas food bank, a community service organization that is focused on the reintegration of the disadvantaged and poor. Our volunteers carefully packed and gift wrapped over 100 shoe boxes filled with individually wrapped, ready to eat food items that were distributed to area homeless at a banquet hosted by The Samaritans. Our Pack also donated 500 euros worth of food items to the Samaritans food pantry. An additional donation of approx. 300 euros worth of bulk food items was given to the Nativitas food pantry. Scouts rallied the community for food items and contact local stores to pitch in and help as well collecting well over 1500 euros worth of food items and wrapping paper. It was a wildly successful event that had an immediate and lasting impact on our community and we plan to include this as an annual event on our planning calendar.