Expanding the Rotary International Family: A Rotaract Club has recently been formed in the Minneapolis - Saint Paul metropolitan area of Minnesota USA (Rotary Districts 5950 and 5960) for young adults 18-30 interested in professional development and making a difference through service. Athletics, rather than location, is what brought the first members together --- but service is what binds us.
Monday, September 14, 2009
Service Project September 14
Our first official service project of the year was at Feed My Starving Children where we had 25 members attend training. Watch the training video here by clicking the first/top video. Our club packaged 8856 meals with countless "perfect" food packs of 390 grams. These food packs of soy, chicken, rice and vegies will feed 24 children for an entire year. We heard lots of cheering and calls out for more product as our group worked for several hours on the packaging floor. Great job warehouse crew too! Pix soon... Some of the stats we learned: 18,000 children a day die of hunger-related issues around the world. Click here for fact sheet about FMSC. We have signed up to serve here two more times this year on the second Monday of December and March.