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Sat, Oct 15
|Hope Lutheran Church
Gallatin Valley Packathon for Haiti
Together let's "pack our bags" and send much needed food to children in Haiti. In four 2-hour sessions, we can pack 100,000 meals—enough for an entire lunch program for a full school year. There are multiple sessions to choose from.
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Oct 15, 2022, 9:00 AM – 11:00 AM
Hope Lutheran Church, W Graf St, Bozeman, MT 59718, USA
About the Event
Together let's "pack our bags" and send much needed food to children in Haiti. In four 2-hour sessions, we can pack 100,000 meals—enough for an entire lunch program for a full school year.
- Ultimate Destination: Bois Negresse, Haiti
- Starting Place: Hope Lutheran Church in Bozeman
- When: Saturday, October 15, 2022
- Register for a 2-hour session: 9-11 am, Noon-2 pm, 3-5 pm, 6-8 pm
- What: Gallatin Valley Packathon for Haiti is a hands-on service event where volunteers from all over our community team together and assemble school lunches.
- Goal: Pack and send 100,000 school lunches for 200 elementary students at the Light and Peace School every weekday through 2023.
- Who: You and 500 volunteers- all ages, faiths, ethnicities, parties, preferences
- Cost: The packathon event is free to attend! The 10 tons of rice, beans, dehydrated vegetables, and vitamin mix we pack and ship will cost $40,000. Each volunteer will pack about $80 worth of food per packing session. Please consider giving a donation if you can help meet the food and shipping costs of this event.
- How: Local non-profit, Future Forward for Haiti invites you to the good feelings that come from seeing a need and working together to alleviate it. You can support this fun, educational, family friendly, hands-on community event in two ways:
- Contribute Financially: the total grocery bill will be $40,000 for ingredients and shipping costs. Together, we can raise this!
- Register to Pack: Give us 2 hours on October 15, 2022 to work alongside other volunteers at Hope Lutheran Church in Bozeman. You could ask your family and friends to sponsor your work, or start a fundraising team.
Follow this link for more details or to register
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