He created the Dando Project, a system of small food pantry boxes to help fight food insecurity in his town. Start the day smarter. Get all the news you need in your inbox each morning.

Feed the Children, a nonprofit organization that works in all 50 states and 10 nations, coordinated the food drive at Hazleton Integration Project with one of its corporate partners, Niagara Bottling.

Project is beginning its sixth year of monthly food distributions, another program it administered expired after just one.