Once again, our Community Service event had an impact on food insecurity. Ten Club members and ten spouses, friends, relatives and a student worked on Sunday, April 26 for a Feed My Starving Children (FMSC) food packing project. FMSC provides nutritionally balanced meals to people around the world. Each meal packet contains protein, vitamins and carbohydrates.
This event was sponsored by Incarnation Church and our team worked with many other groups and individuals to pack the meals. The Feed My Starving Children website states that 1 in 10 children work in order to help feed their families. This means that these kids don’t go to school or participate in the fun of being a child.
Everyone in our group agreed that this drive is impactful work and helps the global community. Here are some pictures from the day.
At Incarnation Church with lots of other Service clubs and Community volunteers.
Once again, our Community Service event had an impact on food insecurity. Ten Club members and ten spouses, friends, relatives and a student worked on Sunday, April 26 for a Feed My Starving Children (FMSC) food packing project. FMSC provides nutritionally balanced meals to people around the world. Each meal packet contains protein, vitamins and carbohydrates.
This event was sponsored by Incarnation Church and our team worked with many other groups and individuals to pack the meals. The Feed My Starving Children website states that 1 in 10 children work in order to help feed their families. This means that these kids don’t go to school or participate in the fun of being a child.
Today's meeting involved a site visit to the new Genesis Event Center in Arden Hills. Our host was owner Rose Kukwa, formerly of Cameroon Africa. Genesis occupies the 11,000 sq. ft. building which formerly housed a Bingo operation across from Flaherty's Arden Bowl. It is open for business and has begun hosting weddings and other gatherings, although there is still some construction underway to correct problems with the original design. It will include a cafe, expected to open this spring. Ms. Kukwa gave us some insight into her background. Her father died when she was only 10 years old, leaving her widowed mother to care for 7 children. Rose eventually was able to obtain a visa and came to the United States. She first stayed with relatives in Michigan, but she moved to Minnesota in 2013. MN has a relatively large population of immigrants from Cameroon, which made the transition easier for her. This is a lovely space and will hopefully be a great success.
Frank Mabley and his wife Jane provided a very interesting presentation today about a Rotary trip they joined in January 2025 sponsored by the organization Sustainable Cambodia. This is a Rotarian-led nonprofit organization that helps Cambodian families create a sustainable quality of life with safe water and sanitation, sustainable incomes, healthy food, and quality education for their children. Village families build schools, install wells, learn alternative agriculture, and learn to manage community projects. They then “pass-on” what they have learned by helping neighboring villages. Through this model, they develop the resources needed to rebuild their future in the aftermath of the Khmer Rouge genocide which killed 25% of the population during the mid-1970's. Shockingly, there are still 32 million land mines in place which continue to have the possibility of inflicting great harm. They have come up with a unique solution: Giant rats are imported from Africa and trained to detect mines using their strong sense of smell. These "Hero Rats" can also detect Tuberculosis in humans. The Mableys spoke highly of their trip, which also included a visit to Angkor Wat - the world's largest religious monument and a World Heritage Site. It also served as the former capital of the Khmer empire but was later converted to a Buddhist temple.
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