Feed Long Island, Brooklyn & Queens

The Huntington Rotary Club, in cooperation with the Huntington High School and in conjunction with Rotary District 7255, is holding an event you should be aware of on November 12, 2016 at the Huntington High School.  -  The Feed Long Island, Brooklyn & Queens program.

We have partnered with Outreach, a non-profit organization, which will help us create multiple assembly lines in the high school cafeteria. In these assembly lines, 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’s150 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 other volunteers, like the students in Interact, may pack as many meals as we can get the funding and 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.

But whether or not you can personally make it, please make the checks out to the “The Outreach Program”, which is a 501(c)(3) charity, offering you full tax deduction privileges.  Please mail the checks immediately to Greg Fitzgerald, 56 Cliftwood Drive, Huntington, NY 11743.

Thank you for your time and we are truly appreciative of all of your support! Thanks again!

To sign up to volunteer, email Greg Fitzgerald at gregfitz7@yahoo.com