We are posting this to urge you to volunteer 90 minutes of your time and $25 for a high-impact large-scale event in Madison taking place on April 8-10. More than 500,000 meals will be packaged and sent to Haiti to support the continuing relief efforts there. This is a family-friendly event, and children as young as 5 years old can participate. As of right now, there is still a need for volunteers on Friday evening and Saturday.
As a direct response to recent events in Haiti, on April 8, 9, & 10 the Madison Relief Organization (MRO) will sponsor a volunteer event to prepare half a million meals for Haitians in need. We are asking that volunteers donate $25 and 90 minutes. In just 90 minutes each volunteer will prepare over 200 meals. At just 12¢ per meal this is an extremely cost-effective strategy to provide direct aid to Haitians in need.
Their goal is to package 500,000 meals during the 3-day event. During the event volunteers will assemble the food in a supervised, sanitary setting in assembly line fashion during 90-minute shifts. For registration and information, see www.mealsforhaiti.org.
WHO:
Any person able to sit or stand for up to 90 minutes can prepare meals.
LOCATION:
Airport Road Industrial Park (by Keva)
8233 Forsythia Street
Middleton, WI 53562
WHEN:
Thursday, April 8 from 6 – 9 PM
Friday, April 9 from 6 – 9 PM
Saturday, April 10 from 9 AM – 3 PM
REGISTRATION: On-line at www.mealsforhaiti.org. Please register to reserve your place. Please join Madison Meals for Haiti on Facebook.
DONATIONS: If you are unable to attend, please consider sponsoring the event, by contributing on-line at www.mealsforhaiti.org, or make checks payable to: Madison Relief Organization, send to: Treasurer, Madison Relief Organization/1341 Jenifer St/ Madison, WI 53703
To facilitate the event MRO partnered with Feeding Children International and Kids Against Hunger. These groups have developed a nutritionally balanced, dried-food meal that to date has been distributed to over 40,000,000 children and people in need across the U.S. and around the world. Each package of food contains 6 servings of 4 ingredients (rice, soy protein, dried vegetables and vitamins).
Relief International will ensure that our meals reach Haitians in need. Relief International’s emergency response teams in Haiti will provide these life-saving meals to children and families in hospitals and makeshift living camps.