Rotary Seeks Volunteers and Donations for Rise Against Hunger Project
The Rotary Club of San Marcos is preparing for its second Rise Against Hunger Experience on Saturday, October 15 from 8:30-Noon.. The club is seeking both volunteers to help package meals and donations to purchase the food for shipment overseas.
Rise Against Hunger RAH was founded in 1998. The organization was founded by Ray Buchanan, a Methodist pastor, with the goal of providing food and aid to people in need around the world and responding to disasters. Nonprofit RAH is headquartered in Raleigh, North Carolina but they have 28 locations across the U.S. and five overseas in Italy, India, Malaysia, South Africa and the Philippines.
The Rotary Club of San Marcos works with the Houston RAH office. They sponsored their first RAH “Experience” in October 2021. More than 150 volunteers packaged 15,000 meals (each serving six people) that were shipped to famine stricken Burundi, in East Africa.
The meal packaging will be held at the First Lutheran Church on Holland Street in San Marcos. .Meals packaged by volunteers, and consist of rice, soy, dehydrated vegetables and essential vitamins and minerals. To date, RAH has packaged over 550 million meals for distribution in 78 countries.
San Marcos Rotary is partnering with Rotary clubs in Kyle and Wimberley for this event, as well as Rotaract, the Rotary student club at Texas State University. In addition to RAH, on October 15, the clubs are seeking nonperishable food donations for the Hays County Food Bank, and cash donations for the Food Bank and San Marcos School Fuel, which provides food to San Marcos students on weekends and over holidays when school meals are not served. The goal is to meet the needs of hungry people both locally and internationally.
Volunteers can signup for RAH at http://events.
Rotary is nonprofit, nonpolitical, and nonreligious. The San Marcos Rotary Club is 100 years old.
