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CLIFTON FORGE — Approximately 60 volunteers gathered at Dabney S. Lancaster Community College on Saturday, Dec. 1, to package approximately 10,000 meals for the hungry in the Alleghany Highlands.
The Covington-Hot Springs Rotary Club partnered with Outreach, Inc., hosting the meal packaging event. The meals are a nutritious blend of macaroni, soy and a vitamin enriched cheese blend designed for Outreach by Iowa State University’s Food Science Department.
Ten volunteers surrounded two tables made into a simple assembly line. Each packaging line of volunteers can package over 2,000 meals per hour.
Volunteers included Rotarians and their families; students from DSLCC, Alleghany and Covington High School; students from Boys Home of Virginia; and employees from Bath Community Hospital, Lew-isGale Hospital-Alleghany, the Virginian Review, city of Covington and Alleghany County.
The Covington-Hot Rotary Club is an international service club bringing together business and professional leaders in order to provide humanitarian services. It encourages high ethical standards in all vocations and helps build goodwill and peace in the world.
The club meetings are the second and fourth Thurs-days at 6:30 p.m., typically at the Magnuson Inn in Covington.
In 10 years, Outreach has provided ingredients to package over 260 million meals. Outreach received the Global Empowerment Award by the United Nations Millennium Development Goals Artist and Athletes Committee in 2013. Outreach has also received Charity Navigators Four Star rating for three consecutive years, and a GuideStar Silver Participant rating.
Outreach is also a proud member of the Alliance to End Hunger and a partner to Universities Fighting World Hunger.
For more information about the Covington-Hot Springs Rotary Club, please contact John Rainone at jrainone99@gmail.com.
