Bayview Students Pack 11 thousand meals for Uganda

Last Saturday, 40 people came together to pack 11 thousand meals for the hungry in Uganda.  The team consisted of members of the Rotary Club of Richmond Hill, and students from Bayview Secondary School’s Interact Club (a Rotary-sponsored youth service club), and their friends.

 

The event was held Saturday at St. Matthews Church on Crosby Avenue.  Two “production lines” of students were set up to pack dried food into six-meal servings.  The event was made possible through a $3,000 donation by the Rotary Club of Richmond Hill to purchase the food and materials.

 

 

The idea behind the meals comes from the organization Kids Against Hunger.  They are a humanitarian food-aid organization, whose mission is to help feed starving children throughout the world. Kids Against Hunger is not affiliated with or restricted to a particular religious group and does not discriminate on any basis when distributing its meals.

 

The organization’s approach to achieving its goal – the eradication of world hunger – includes the packaging of a highly nutritious, vitamin-fortified soy-rice casserole by volunteers at numerous locations within the USA and Canada, and the distribution of those meals to starving children and their families in over 60 countries through partnerships with humanitarian organizations worldwide. Last year alone, volunteers at Kids Against Hunger’s food packaging centers across the USA and Canada packaged forty million meals for children and their families around the world and around the corner.

 

 

The Kids Against Hunger meals have been formulated by food scientists to provide a rich source of easily digestible protein, carbohydrates, and vitamins needed by a malnourished child’s body and mind. The food also accommodates to the broad diversity of ethnic tastes and religious differences around the world.