3/7/2010 - Club: Hendricks - Submitted by: Harvey Buchholz & Julie Hogie

On February 27th, the Hendricks Kiwanis Club sponsored the "Kids Against Hunger" program, which brought in a huge truck loaded with raw materials to fill into bags which will be shipped to Haiti to feed the hungry children. The food consists of fortified soy, rice, vegetables, chicken flavoring, vitamins and minerals. The club had been advertising the project for some time and had contacted many local organizations, clubs, churches,and businesses for support in funding and volunteering to help fill the bags. The public responded wonderfully, as we had about 250 volunteers, including 16 Kiwanians, with ages from 2 to 96, to help that day, as well as about $9500 in donations. There were 14,166 bags filled, each bag containing 6 meals, so almost 85,000 meals were packaged for Haiti. The cost of the materials was 15 cents per meal, or $12,750. Our club donated $3145 to pay for what the donations from others did not cover. During the week prior to the event, local Kiwanians served samples of the rice product to the elementary students to encourage their families to participate in the packaging day. We had hoped for 50,000 meals and 50 volunteers, but the public responded very well, not only from Hendricks but also the rural areas and surrounding communities. The people from Kids Against Hunger were amazed, saying there was nothing we could have done better. They are hoping for 1 million meals from the whole state of Minnesota, and our little town of 700 has already furnished over 8% of that total.

 

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