In March, our Club’s service project focused on helping the Every Meal organization fulfill its mission of alleviating food insecurity for children. Sixteen members of our Club were joined by 12 students from the Mounds View High School volunteer club in this effort.
The task before us was to help lessen food insecurity for school children by packing bags of food for students to take home for the weekend, a time when they don’t have access to school meals.
Over the course of two hours, our group, together with volunteers from other organizations, packed 4,722 bags of food which provided 18,099 weekend meals for school children.
More than 300,000 children in Minnesota live in food insecurity. Every Meal partners with businesses, faith communities and service organizations to fill the food bags for school children, ensuring their families have a healthy source of food over the weekend. To learn more about Every Meal visit https://www.everymeal.org/.
This service project again illustrates how our Club’s members are fulfilling Rotary’s mission of “Service Above Self”.