Free Water, but is it needed?

Each morning on my way to work I pass a nice middle class public high school. Since school started this week there's been a great deal of activity around the school which is located at a major intersection. This morning on two of the corners of the intersection there was a group of teenage boys wearing fluorescent green shirts which said "Free Water" on the front and the name of their christian academy on the back.

It actually took me a minute to realize that these boys were actually handing out bottles of water to the students going into this school with air conditioning and water fountains, at the very least. Now, I respect that these students from the christian school felt they were doing service work, however, wouldn't it make more sense and have a bigger impact if they were giving away water downtown where the homeless people could really use it? A bottle of water isn't going to save a teen walking into an air conditioned school where there are water fountains and possibly soda machines. On the other hand, a homeless person on the streets of downtown Phoenix might just have their life saved by someone handing them a bottle of water.

I have to wonder, what exactly is this christian academy teaching their student? It's OK to do pseudo service work, just don't get your hands dirty? It's much safer to give water to these middle class kids down the street, those bums downtown might contaminate them. Hmmmm.... Jesus didn't hang out with the middle class, he surrounded himself with all the undesirables and ministered to them.