Help package more than 300,000 fortified meals this Saturday, March 21, to be distributed to families in need throughout WNC by MANNA FoodBank. The Sixth Annual Rotarians Against Hunger (RAH) meal packaging event will be held at the Reuter Family YMCA and is described as a ‘fun, family friendly and immensely rewarding experience where people – individuals, families, church groups, civic organizations and businesses – come together and package nutritious meals to help feed our neighbors.’
To make a tax deductible donation and/or volunteer for a shift at the RAH meal packaging event, visit www.rotariansagainsthunger.org
Read the full press release here:
Fight Hunger at Home and Abroad With WNC Rotarians
Asheville, NC – Join in the fight against hunger in Western North Carolina and participate in the Sixth Annual Rotarians Against Hunger (RAH) meal packaging event on March 21st, 2015 at the Reuter Family YMCA in Biltmore Park. The goal is to package 300,000+ fortified meals that will be distributed throughout Western North Carolina to families in need by MANNA FoodBank.
The meal packaging event at the Reuter Family YMCA is a fun, family friendly and immensely rewarding experience where people – individuals, families, church groups, civic organizations and businesses – come together and package nutritious meals to help feed our neighbors. Primary sponsor of the event is Thermo Fisher Scientific. Please Join Us!
Seed Programs International (SPI) is a humanitarian organization which works through other humanitarian groups—worldwide—to provide vegetable seed to impoverished communities in developing countries enabling them to grow some of their own food. The organization not only provides the seed, but gives expertise and hands-on assistance on how to successfully plant and harvest. This is an effort to contribute to a long term cure for global hunger. About fifteen percent of the RAH funds raised will go toward distributing seeds internationally through SPI.
With the assistance of community partners MANNA FoodBank, Reuter Family YMCA and Seed Programs International, Rotary Clubs of Western North Carolina seek to address the increasingly critical need for food among people in WNC and overseas. The meal packaging event is an effort to help locally and globally and the partners have set a $65,000 fundraising goal to make this happen.
To make a tax deductible donation and/or volunteer for a shift at the RAH meal packaging event visit www.rotariansagainsthunger.org
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