EGHS Senior, Her 'Team' Assemble 5,000 Meals For Local Food Pantries
Rebecca Nunez raised the money and organized a team to put together nutritious meals ... lots of them.
Forty people, lots of foodstuffs, and one hard-working EGHS senior put together 5,000 meals ready for distribution to local food pantries earlier this month. Senior Rebecca Nunez raised more than $1,500 to buy the items needed for the meals, using the Kids Care model. Founded in 2004, Kids Care has been helping communities, schools, places of worship, businesses and service organizations around the country to package nutritious meals, all fortified with soy protein, nutrients and vitamins. Food packages include ingredient-labeling and cooking instructions and are heat sealed to ensure freshness. When it came time to put Rebecca's meals together, more than 30 volunteers showed up at the cafeteria to package the meals in a well-oiled …
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Ericka Forman
2:46 pm on Monday, November 19, 2012
Very good work Rebecca and the rest. Right now 67,000 households in RI don't have enough food, this according to Andrew Shift of the Food Bank. (Shift is quoted in the Providence Journal today). He also points out that the SNAP program (food stamps) helps 24% of RI households. These people will be in a great deal of trouble if cuts to the program, currently contained in the Farm Bill, go through… more ›