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The Common Cents Penny Harvest is back, collecting loose change to help people affected by earthquakes in Haiti and Chile.

The group is also collecting money for local charities like food pantries.

Groups from 755 schools around the city are taking part, including P.S. 119 in Flatbush, Brooklyn, which has already raised more than $1,500.

"Penny Harvest is designed to give kids a chance to really experience what it feels like to give back and help others," said Common Cents program director Adam Seidel.

"Every child in this school, parents supported us, the local community supported us,” said P.S. 119 Penny Harvest Coach Gen Berretta. “Everybody was involved in bringing in their pennies, no matter how much, and we all joined together.”

Some of the students who participated were affected personally by the Haitian earthquake.

“We just worked together, we put our heads together, and we just had one big idea,” said student Wiguerson Cessant, who has family in Haiti.

"Because this is my family and they are poor and they don't have nothing, they don't have no clothes or nothing," said Yamrod Etienne, another Haitian-American student.

"It's because I really care about them, I really care about those people. Because it's like those people are in my blood, really," said student Yvee Pierre, another Haitian-American student.

The program, which raised more than $665,000 in pennies last year, is fully incorporated into the schools' curriculums.

"We are business people. We promote, do math, we create action plans," said Berretta.

Final totals for this year will be announced next month.

For more information, go to PennyHarvest.org.