Volunteers needed for Rotary’s Rise Against Hunger event

May 5, 2022  |  By Waterbury Roundabout 

The funnel station portions out rice for meal packages as volunteer's work at the 2019 Rotary Club Rise for Hunger event at Harwood Union High School. Photo by Peter Colgan.

The Mad River Valley and Waterbury Rotary Clubs will hold their Rise Against Hunger meal-packaging event on Saturday, May 21, at Harwood Union Middle and High School from 10 a.m. to noon. 

Volunteers will package complete meals of nutritious dried foods for shipment to hungry people around the world as part of a Rotary International initiative. The nutritious, rice-based meals are sent to school programs and orphanages in the developing world. 

This year’s goal is to pack 15,000 meals in that short time. Seventy volunteers are needed for the effort. There are no special skills or physical ability requirements and volunteers as young as age 4 are welcome to participate (with supervision). 

Volunteers in 2019 work at a Rotary Club Rise for Hunger event at Harwood Union High School. Photo by Peter Colgan.

In addition to volunteering to assist with the packing event, community members could support the project with a financial donation to help offset the nearly $5,300 cost for the ingredients and packaging items. A donation is not required to participate, however. 

For more information, email questions to bolds2006@gmail.com or read more online at MRVRotary.org. Sign up to volunteer or donate here.