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Submitted photos Volunteers work to pack meals at a Kids Against Hunger food-packing event. Kids Against Hunger packages highly nutritious, life-saving meals for starving children and malnourished children and their families in developing countries and the United States.
Kids Against Hunger and Lindenwood University partnering to pack and ship 250,000 meals to those in need By Brett Auten A quarter of a million is a lot of anything. The local chapter of Kids Against Hunger is partnering with Lindenwood University to host a food packing event. Over a two-day span, a goal of 250,000 meals will be packed and shipped both nationally and internationally. This event will focus on local food pantries while keeping sights set on opportunities to serve those in need globally. The event takes place on Oct. 14 from noon to 3 p.m. and on Oct. 15 from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. When community organizations come together, amazing things can happen and Kids Against Hunger are seeking help from local auto dealerships, real estate companies, roofing companies, churches, life groups, schools and non-profit organizations. Each meal is a fraction of a dollar, just 30 cents. Each sealed package contains six nutritious meals. Each packed box will contain 216 meals and each session will require 100 packers to reach the session goal of 33,000 meals packed. Darrell Konneman, the St. Peters Kids Against Hunger representative, urges
others to be a difference maker by breaking the chain of hunger of the children in their own backyards, playgrounds and neighborhoods. “I have seen the need and I jumped onto this,” Koeneman, a Lindenwood
Estevenson Coleman was born in Haiti and received meals from the Kids Against Hunger while living in an orphanage. Coleman is now a senior at Lindenwood University after being adopted and brought to the United States. He will participate in the upcoming food-packing event at Lindenwood, bringing his story full circle.
alum, said. “Anyone from age 8 to 80 can pack and help out.” Estevenson Coleman knows the benefits of Kids Against Hunger firsthand. Coleman, 22, was born in Haiti and he and his sister were put in an orphanage when his parents passed away. Coleman was just nine-years-old at the time. He recalls when the Kids Against Hunger deliveries would arrive every six months or so. “When they would come in, we were really excited,” Coleman said. “They were easy to make and it was the nutrition that we needed to keep us healthy.” Around the age of 15, Coleman was adopted by George and Sally Coleman and soon after enrolled in St. Charles West High School. Coleman would go on to have a successful soccer career here, going on to play at St. Charles Community College. Coleman is now a senior at Lindenwood, close to graduating with a degree in business with an emphasis in non-profit. Coleman will be one of many packers at Lindenwood, meaning he will have come full circle. “Honestly, it’s crazy,” Coleman said. See HUNGER page 2
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