By the end of its annual food drive, the Spanish Club had collected over 1,000 cans of food, enough to fill up the Canal Alliance’s food pantry for Thanksgiving break.

The Spanish Club brought Redwood’s donations to the Canal Alliance, a nonprofit organization in San Rafael that assists low-income, Spanish-speaking immigrants.

Three cars, stocked with soup cans, jars of peanut butter, canned green beans, and other nonperishable food items, pulled up to the Canal Alliance building on Nov. 20. Volunteers stocked the organization’s pantry.

Senior Diana Tarrazo, president of the Spanish Club, said that this year the club sent emails to language teachers, encouraging them to get their classes to donate, in addition to putting up posters.

Senior Zoe Poyner, vice president, said that the Spanish Club’s annual food drive has become more successful in recent years. The food drive’s donations have more than doubled from last year’s count of around 400 cans.

Out of all participating classes, around half of the cans came from World Language classrooms. However, math teacher Amy Benjamin had the largest number of donated cans — her Precalculus class alone collected approximately 500 cans.

A week after bringing the majority of the cans to the Canal, Poynor returned to drop off the remaining cans that had been left at school. According to Poynor, in the week that had passed, almost all of the cans had been given out by the Canal Alliance.

Tarrazo said that the Spanish Club began donating to the Canal Alliance four years ago, when Zander Slavitz, former Spanish Club president and volunteer at the Canal Alliance, first suggested that Redwood help stock its food bank for those in need.

“Because of our success, we’re thinking about another drive, maybe for school supplies in the spring,” Poynor said.