Kids Against Hunger Service Project by the Rotary Club of Excelsior
Posted by Steve Frazier
on Nov 29, 2011
Our Program last week was spent packing food for "Kids Against Hunger". A very large number of our members met at Mount Calvary, and spent the hour preparing food packs to send to feed starving people in Kenya and Haiti. We packed 8,640 meals during our session, and the staff was astounded at the efficiency and dedication of our club. They were not prepared for that much production!
The packets are 392 to 400 grams in weight, and when prepared with water, each packet provides six meals. In the 7 years that the project has been working at Mount Calvary, they have prepared and shipped packets equal to 3,500,000 meals. Including all costs, each meal costs about 15 cents to deliver to the kids and families in Kenya or Haiti. The sobering fact is that even with efforts such as this, every 6 seconds a child dies of starvation.
We're not the only group to do packing; some other groups that have done packing at Mount Calvary include school PTAs, all ages of school children, families, YMCA groups, companies, and many sports teams.
The packets are 392 to 400 grams in weight, and when prepared with water, each packet provides six meals. In the 7 years that the project has been working at Mount Calvary, they have prepared and shipped packets equal to 3,500,000 meals. Including all costs, each meal costs about 15 cents to deliver to the kids and families in Kenya or Haiti. The sobering fact is that even with efforts such as this, every 6 seconds a child dies of starvation.
We're not the only group to do packing; some other groups that have done packing at Mount Calvary include school PTAs, all ages of school children, families, YMCA groups, companies, and many sports teams.
Not a bad way to spend a lunch-hour, feeing 8,640 starving people!
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