In March, the Milton Rotary Club sponsored the 5^th annual Rise Against Hunger event this year at Cambridge High School’s cafeteria. Volunteers helped pack approximately 26,000 highly nutritious dehydrated meals made up of rice, soy, vegetables and 23 essential vitamins and minerals in assembly-line fashion. Once packaged, the meals were delivered by the Rise Against Hunger team to impoverished communities in developing countries.

In 2018, the Milton Rotary Club event packaged nearly 22,000 meals with volunteer help from Rotary Clubs in the North Fulton area, City of Milton First Responders, Cambridge High School students, teachers, and staff, as well as community volunteers. Stacey Inglis, who is coordinating the event, explained: “Rise Against Hunger provides us with the contents of these meals and it’s our job to get them ready to be shipped overseas to help the hungry. In past years, these meals have helped children in Swaziland, Mozambique and other countries in need. In 2019, we packaged more than 26,000 meals!”

About Rise Against Hunger

The mission of Rise Against Hunger is driven by the vision of a world without hunger. The organization’s mission is to end hunger in our lifetime by providing food and life-changing aid to the world’s most vulnerable and creating a global commitment to mobilize the necessary resources. In 1998, envisioning a world without hunger, Ray Buchanan — a United Methodist minister — founded Stop Hunger Now. In 2017, Stop Hunger Now rebranded to become Rise Against Hunger. After enlisting as a U.S. Marine during the Vietnam War, Ray Buchanan quickly recognized that accomplishing a mission required “commitment to something larger than yourself.” Driving Rise Against Hunger’s work is the recognition that ending hunger is more than just feeding people, which led Rise Against Hunger to focus its feeding programs in areas where we can have a real impact and expand its hunger-fighting programs beyond meal packaging and distribution. For more information, visit the website.