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East Meadow girl, 12, uses Facebook to help Sandy victims
Photo credit: Brittany Wait
Sydney Inger is such an advocate for feeding her community that the 12-year-old made certain the leftover food from her future bat mitzvah is donated to a local pantry.
Since 2008, Inger has volunteered with Island Harvest, a Long Island-based hunger relief organization, collecting nonperishables at her school to bring to local food pantries.
“I kept seeing Red Cross commercials to raise...