On an exquisite fall Saturday, lots of of volunteers spent hours packing meals in a church gymnasium in McLean, Virginia, to assist feed the hungry all over the world.
Tons of of volunteers spent hours packing meals in a church gymnasium in McLean, Virginia, on Saturday to assist feed the hungry all over the world. (WIPO/Luke Lukert)
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They packed 200,000 meals on the Rise In opposition to Starvation occasion at Redeemer Lutheran Church. (WIPO/Luke Lukert)
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Dehydrated rice that must be packaged and loaded right into a transport container. (WIPO/Luke Lukert)
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Volunteers packing meals containers. (WIPO/Luke Lukert)
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It was an exquisite, crisp fall morning when lots of of volunteers spent hours in a church gymnasium in McLean, Virginia, packing meals for the hungry a world away.
About 1,200 volunteers packed 200,000 meals on the Rise In opposition to Starvation occasion on the Lutheran Church of the Redeemer on Chain Bridge Highway.
“There are lots of people from the group right here you can see and know that you’re serving to on a worldwide stage,” stated Patricia Engle, a volunteer on the occasion.
Volunteers funneled dehydrated rice, greens and soybeans into baggage with dietary dietary supplements that had been then sealed, packaged and loaded right into a transport container.
“It's in a position to serve any tradition, any dietary restriction,” stated Pam Love, Rise In opposition to Starvation's Nationwide Capital space supervisor. “It’s halal, vegetarian and gluten-free. After which we’ve the vitamin packet to high it off. So we’ve all spectrums of macronutrients.”
These explicit meals can be despatched to the Philippines for a faculty feeding program known as Convoy of Hope.
“Children go to high school strictly to obtain these meals,” Love stated. “All of it begins with a meal, and that's our motto. But it surely doesn't finish there as a result of when these kids go to high school day-after-day to obtain these meals, additionally they obtain an schooling.”
McLean has hosted the occasion since 2010, when Bob and Barb Hahne introduced it there.
Roberta Pittman, who helped coordinate the occasion, advised WTOP that Bob Hahne had simply died earlier within the week and that volunteers had been persevering with the custom of honoring his contributions to ending world starvation.
“We now have to honor him and Barb for what they've achieved,” Pittman stated. “Up to now we’ve packaged greater than three and a half million meals over the course of the quite a few occasions, and it’s due to them and their dedication to the mission.”
The meals can be packaged in a transport container and shipped from Norfolk, Virginia, subsequent week.
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