End Hunger in Kings Park to Do First Run This Month
Posted by Alex Paykin on Sep 28, 2016
The Kings Park High School Interact Club, in partnership with the Commack-Kings Park Rotary Club, is holding an event you should be aware of on September 28, 2016 at the Kings Park High School. - The End Hunger in Kings Park program. We have partnered with Outreach, the non-profit organization (which is the same one working with the District on the much larger district-wide events planned for later in the fall and throughout next year), which will help us create an assembly line in the high school cafeteria. In this assembly line, we will pack nutritious non-perishable ready to cook meals, which will be provided to local food pantries and soup kitchens, as well as directly to public school students who do not have reliable access to food. If you would like to donate your time, please join us for two hours (half hour of setup, an hour of packing and a half hour of breakdown and cleanup).
In that time, you will work at an assembly table that will make about 1,800 meals. That’s 150 meals per volunteer, per hour. The food and materials provided by Outreach come at cost of $40.00 per volunteer, or $480.00 per assembly table. This works out to approximately 25 cents per nutritious meal distributed to a hungry child!
So even if you don’t have the time to join us yourself, please sponsor a volunteer or two, so that the students in Interact may pack as many meals as we can get the workforce for. If you’re in a position to, sponsor an entire table, and for $480.00 we will feed 1,800 hungry Long Islanders. If that’s a bit much, sponsor half a table. Or a quarter. No contribution is too small or too big, as the number of working assembly tables depends on our community’s support.
We are working on this project together with volunteers from the Commack High School Interact Club, the East Northport Rotary Club. The Ronkonkoma Rotary Club has already pledged a full table! Join us! Bring your friends and family! But whether or not you can personally make it, please make the checks out to the “Commack-Kings Park Charitable Fund”, which is a 501(c)(3) charity, offering you full tax deduction privileges (Tax ID # 11-3346097). Please mail the checks immediately to the Commack-Kings Park Rotary Club, P.O. Box 96 Veterans Memorial Highway Commack, NY 11725. Thank you for your time and we are truly appreciative of all of your support! Thanks again! To sign up to volunteer, email alexander@paykinlaw.net