McALLEN — Shocked at how many of his fellow students face food insecurity, McAllen High senior Dylan Kelly wanted to make a difference and started Blessing Bags, a student-led organization aimed at providing bags of meals for students.

Already volunteering at the food pantry at First United Methodist Church and later becoming a National Tackle Food Pantry Ambassador, Kelly would organize food drive events such as Souper Bowl of Caring to help the pantry receive more donations.

His passion for helping others led to conversations about food insecurity with his McHi counselor Briana Rojas and social worker Edna Hernandez.

“Like one out of three kids at McHi right now are facing food insecurity and you don’t know that, you might walk past them every day in the hallway,” he said.

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