NHS is hosting a homemade tamale fundraiser on March 23 during lunch hours to raise funds for this year’s NHS events and conferences.

NHS President Lesley Garcia and her grandmother took pre-orders for the homemade tamales from March 16-20. Students and staff were both able to pre-order tamales through eFunds. If supplies last, extras will be sold during lunch periods on March 23. The tamales are made with chicken and green salsa and wrapped in corn husks. 

“My grandma and I will be making them by hand on the Sunday before the fundraiser,” Garcia said. “My grandma volunteers her time to make food for the community, and the community purchases the food, which then raises funds for our school’s NHS chapter,” Garcia said.

Garcia took inspiration from local tamale vendors and priced them similarly. The tamales were priced three for $5. 

“I wanted to keep the prices affordable, so I looked at local places and decided to sell them for the same price, three for five,” Garcia said.

The National Honor Society runs a bunch of community and service-based projects yearly, and many of them require small investments. To keep funding NHS events, they need to keep hosting more fundraisers. 

“In the past, chicharron and bake sales have been incredibly successful, and NHS decided that selling tamales during lunch periods would be similarly fun and delicious,” senior NHS member Gwen Nika said.

The club may run the fundraiser again later this spring if it is successful.

“I am probably going to buy them because they were made by someone’s grandma and not someone random,” junior Andres Muñoz said.