Ithaca Sunrise Rotary Helps Feed 916 Children
Posted by Christine (Chris) Haase
on Sep 27, 2012
On September 8, 2012, ten members of the Rotary Club of Ithaca Sunrise worked a two-hour shift at Ithaca’s third annual Feed My Starving Children Mobile Pack event, hosted this year at the First Congregational Church.
Participating ISR club members:
Patricia Baxter
Paul Banfield
Andy Cove
Karen Creenan
Chris Haase
Pat Longaker
Roni Mays
Ed Pasto
Frank Smith
Ken Walker
Here are some statistics from our shift:
Total volunteers: 125
Time: 1 hour, 40 minutes
Boxes packed: 137
Number of meals: 29,592
Will feed 81 children 1 hot meal a day for 1 year.
Last year, 110,000 meals were assembled. This year the total number of meals has jumped to 334,368! Wow
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