DALLAS (WBAP/KLIF News) – More than 700 students, staff and volunteers will be helping battle hunger on a global scale this weekend.
Deacon Bill Fobes said they’ll prepare 155,000 packaged meals that will be shipped via the Feed My Starving Children Program to various cities around the world.
“Where there is significant hunger either through natural causes or other kinds of disasters that happened. They served in Haiti after the hurricane that came through and many other places in Africa and the Saharan region that just can’t produce and distribute the food that people need for basic subsistence,” he said.
Conner Chen is a Bishop Lynch Senior who has been volunteering with the Feed My Starving Children Program’s Mobil Pack effort for the past two years. He said his reason for participating is two fold.
“You get to know people around you. You work together to help people who are starving out there,” he said.
The school encourages as many students, staff and community members to join the effort.
Chen said he doesn’t mind spending a Saturday helping to make a major impact on someone he’ll never meet. He realizes that he’s lucky and wants to help those who are less fortunate.
“We kind of have grown up in privilege. We’ve had meals. We’ve had warm beds. We get to bathe everyday. There are people out there that don’t even get the privilege of having a meal,” he said.
Deacon Fobes said it’s important to teach young people the power of altruism early to help build a large army of people who commit to working towards the common good.
“We’re committed to be in solidarity with people around the world who are in need and if we turn our back on our neighbors wherever they are… then we’re not living up to who we are called to be,” he said.
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