A multi-Rotary-club food-packaging event, to benefit Rise Against Hunger, exceeded its goal to package at least 20,000 meals in two hours. The group actually packaged 23,500 meals over several hours due to generous fundraising and lots of overtime work from volunteers.
The May 15 event's main sponsors were the Rotary Club of Nashoba Valley, Nashoba High School's Interact Club, and Littleton High School's Humanitarian Club. And, the co-sponsors were the Rotary Club of Hudson, the Rotary Club of Littleton, and Workers Credit Union.
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Rise Against Hunger will send the food to needy areas around the world. Previous events have provided meals to people in the African nations of Burkina Faso and Malawi.
This high-energy event was ideal for high school students such as Interact clubs. And, we requested a $1,000 donation from participating Rotary clubs. For more information on this event - and how to hold your own food-packaging event - contact either Nashoba Valley Rotarian Chris Spear at chris@spear.net or the Nashoba Valley club at
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