Despite the wintery rainy night 50 Melbourne Rotarians, Melbourne University Rotaract and guests volunteered for meal packing, on behalf of FORaMEAL, at Melbourne University last Tuesday, 12 August 25, led by President Philip. Over 9,000 meals were packed in 1.5 hours.
Each pack can feed 4-6 people and is targeted and delivered to people who are either displaced or suffering from natural disasters. It is made up of rice, oats, lentils and a sachet of scientifically formulated vitamins and minerals, it provides nutrition just with added boiling water - fuel for hope in the hardest times.
We were advised that these packs will be heading off next week for Somaliland, where communities are facing severe drought and conflict.
Rotary Melbourne have now packed in total of 57,200 meals in the past five events, they were distributed to the Philippines, Ukraine etc.
FORaMEAL is a project of the Rotary Club of Canterbury guided by food scientist and club member Doug Hawley, with supplier support from Quin Scalzo. Their hardworking team is efficient and well versed in guiding the volunteers in the process. To date FORaMEAL has packed 2,00,000 meals and 1,800,000 meals have been distributed (for FREE!).
The stayers adjourned to the Oxford Scholar afterwards for a meal and companionship.
