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.  

• 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: 

1. Contribute Financially: the total grocery bill will be $40,000 for ingredients and shipping costs. Together, we can raise this!
2. 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

2022 Gallatin Valley Packathon for Haiti (qgiv.com)