Students at Hyattsville's Northwestern High School Help Homeless

National Honor Society Monday made dozens of sandwiches for Martha' Table, a Washington, D.C.-based organization that provides food and clothing to those in need.

“This will be our second year doing so,” said Semira Tesfai, the school’s NHS historian. “[The food will be] distributed from the shelter to homeless people in the area.”

The students slathered thick layers of gooey peanut butter and grape jelly onto slices of bread as they chatted and joked with each other in the classroom of Billy Shulman, one of the school’s NHS co-sponsors.

Jeanne Mignone, Shulman’s counterpart, said the students are also working on a tutoring program to help classmates who “need a boost” academically. Tutors in that program, which is planned to begin in December, will help students work toward upcoming HSA exams, she said.