Student council members collected second-hand jeans for Aeropostale’s Teens for Jeans program to provide pants to impoverished teenagers in the area.

The Teens for Jeans project asks students and schools to donate their jeans, slacks, khakis, sweat pants and other types of pants to give to charities. Junior student council officer Payton Noel said she found the idea on dosomething.org when she was looking for potential projects.

“I saw it and thought it would benefit a lot of people in the area,” Noel said. “So we signed up the drive on dosomething.org, made flyers and announced what we were doing throughout the school.”

In the four weeks they ran the drive, the student council collected more than 164 pairs of pants.

“Our school is the only school in the area who took part in the fundraiser, according to the people at Aeropostle,” Noel said.

All of the collected clothing is sent to neighborhood charities to help needy teenagers in the area.

“I liked that proceeds of this project stayed local,” Noel said. “This program wasn’t like others. I liked that it wasn’t just another canned food drive.”