The day after Christmas, we trekked out to Aurora, IL with some of our extended family to the Feed My Starving Children facility to pack food for children in developing nations that are literally eating dirt and rocks to stave off feelings of hunger.
• 2 hours
• 84 volunteers
• 102 boxes of food
• [...]
another two hours well spent, happy holidays
December 28th, 2008
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earth scouts
November 12th, 2008
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We had a our first Earth Scouts meeting Monday. What is Earth Scouts you ask? Well, I had no clue about it up until a few months ago. I never thought I would want Aidan in a scouting program (I guess Earth Scouts inaugural meetingI just kept thinking of the paramilitary and homophobic scouting programs [...]
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today we prepared 10,800 meals for starving children
October 27th, 2008
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It is our hope to engage in more volunteer and service-learning activities with Aidan (for his sake and our own). So today, we sought such an opportunity through the “Feed My Starving Children” organization located in Aurora, IL. It was a wonderful experience.
• 2 hours• 49 volunteers• 50 boxes of food• 10,800 meals• 30 kids fed for a year
Together [...]
Tags: service-learning · volunteering
