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Feeding Children in Hartford

Members of the Westminster community rallied together to support a hunger project in late February that led to preparation of thousands of meals for children in Hartford.
 
Students in Serving Our Neighbors (SON) spearheaded an effort to raise money and package meals for Feeding Children Everywhere, a social charity that empowers and mobilizes people to assemble healthy meals for hungry children abroad and in their local communities. SON brought a lot of energy to the fundraiser by putting up posters around campus and enlisting volunteers. The John Hay Vestry and its faculty advisor, Amy Stevens, also lent support through a special collection in chapel.
 
The project kicked off with Jarrod Fucci, northeast regional manager of Feeding Children Everywhere, giving a chapel talk Feb. 25 about the organization’s history and mission. It has sent 20 million meals around the world and shipped more than 10 million meals to hungry children in 25 different states. “We feed people all over the world including here at home,” he said. “We use the power of mobilizing people.”
 
The group gathers volunteers on competitive assembly lines to hand-package meals consisting of pink Himalayan salt, dehydrated vegetables, white rice and grade-A lentils. For every $10 raised, the organization can feed 40 people.
 
At Westminster, students, faculty and staff formed assembly lines throughout the day Feb. 27 in the old gym and packaged 13,824 meals. The meals were then delivered to Hands On Hartford, which placed them in children’s backpacks that very same day.
 
“Feeding Children Everywhere not only brought together the Westminster community in a fun, competitive environment, but we also helped the community around us,” said Ashton Kille ’15. “It was rewarding to know that all our efforts went to the people that needed it the most in the greater Hartford area.”
 
“Not only was it great to personally pack meals for people in the Hartford area, but Jarrod and his team made it fun with music and team packaging races,” added Emily Kunsman ’15, who serves as co-president of SON with Sophie Skinner ’15. “At the end of the day, Jarrod said he had never seen such a great turnout at a school before. That really meant a lot to Sophie and me.”
 
“The event itself was a big success, especially in light of the fact that it was our first year with the program,” said Amy Stevens. “It was also just fun ‘work.’ Tables raced each other to fill a box with meal packets, or students just worked together, assembly-line style, chatting and packing.”
 
“The outpouring of support was incredible and it had immediate impact,” said Jarrod.
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