So our Lenten Hunger Justice Campaign was a huge success!
Over 70 people showed up at our campaign kick off in February and committed to participating in the campaign through volunteer work, fincial contributions, and donations of food for our food drive.
The youth participating by learning about how food pantries work by taking a tour of the food pantry at the Unitarian Universalist church of Medford and by volunteering at St Luke's food pantry and soup kitchen. A number of families went to OverLook Farm in Rutland MA and learned about food distribution in other countries.
Each Wednesday we had about 30-40 people attend the Hunger Justice series and learned a lot about food insecurity in MA and what charity and justice work looks like and about sustainable agriculture and nutrition.
On Sundays we heard testimonies from Sara Folta, Mark McCurdy, Matt Fenn, and some of the youth of our church.
We have had many volunteers help out at St Luke's and will help out with the Greater Boston Food Bank in August.
In July 2010 we are sending out 6 teens to NYC with the Youth Service Opportunity Project to help serve the hungry there. In March we hosted a Spaghetti Dinner and Auction and raised over $4,000 for the trip!!
We also raised over $750 for St Luke's Soup Kitchen and hope to raise more.
We participated in the Walk For Hunger and raised over $4,700!
And we held a food drive with the goal of raising 144 boxes of food and exceeded that amount and raised over 180 boxes!! The food was all distributed to St Francis, St Luke's, and the Unitarian Universalist church of Medford!
Congrats everyone! And thanks to everyone who helped out!
