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<\/a>More than 800 volunteers will gather in shifts at UToledo to assemble more than 163,000 meals to feed families in Ukraine and other areas in need around the world April 1-2, in the Health Education Building on Main Campus.<\/p><\/div>\n
If the goal is met, 447 children will receive a meal daily for a year.<\/p>\n
The two-day mobile pack, part of the Feed My Starving Children program, is organized by UToledo students who are members of UToledo\u2019s Klar Leadership Academy in the John B. and Lillian E. Neff\u00a0College of Business and Innovation. The academy was founded in 2015 with the support of Steven Klar, a 1971 UToledo business alumnus and a New York City builder and real estate developer.<\/p>\n
Feed My Starving Children\u00a0is a nonpro\ufb01t organization based in Minnesota dedicated to providing nutritious meals to\u00a0children\u00a0in need around the world.<\/p>\n
Hundreds of UToledo students, employees and alumni, as well as teams from companies around Toledo, will split into groups to assemble nutritious rice meals with vegetable blend, vitamins and minerals. The meals are scientifically formulated for undernourished children.<\/p>\n
Donations are used to purchase meal ingredients.<\/p>\n
The shifts will take place from 3 to 5 p.m. and 6 to 8 p.m. Friday, April 1, and from 9 to 11 a.m., noon to 2 p.m., 3 to 5 p.m. and 5:30 to 8 p.m. Saturday, April 2.<\/p>\n
“It has been heartwarming and humbling working with our Klar Leadership Academy students to fundraise and organize this important and life-saving event,\u201d said Dr. Jenell Wittmer,\u00a0associate professor of management. \u201cMany of our students have been deeply impacted by the events in Ukraine. The Feed My Starving Children organization is turning much of its focus to helping the people of Ukraine, so volunteering at and donating to our event is a very simple way to support those efforts.”<\/p>\n
To make a monetary donation or volunteer for a shift, visit the Feed My Starving Children website<\/a>.<\/p>\n \u201cVolunteering is fun and is a great teambuilding event,\u201d Wittmer said. \u201cNo special skills are needed. Bring your colleagues, teams and families.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The two-day mobile pack, part of the Feed My Starving Children program, is organized by UToledo students who are members of UToledo\u2019s Klar Leadership Academy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":875,"featured_media":72251,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[50,32,5,1,7],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72250"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/875"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72250"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72250\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":72253,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72250\/revisions\/72253"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/72251"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72250"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72250"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72250"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<\/a>