ELEVEN volunteers from the Altrincham Rotary Club joined together with 28 Rotary Clubs in the region with the aim of packing 100,000 meal packs.
The meal packs were part of the Rotary and Stop Hunger Now Project and these meal packs were specifically for the Soweto Academy, situated in a shanty town near Nairobi, Kenya.
The exceeded their target - the number achieved was 102,128.
This is the first time such a project has taken place in the United Kingdom and the event was filmed by BBC TV.
The packs each contain rice, lentils, soy mix and a vitamin pack of protein and minerals.
The event at Chaigeley School, Thelwall, was very well organised with seven work stations containing the food. Each work station required seven people, one to hold the bag under the funnel, then two other helpers poured the rice, lentils and other goodies into the funnel. A helper added the vitamin pack, two people then checked the weight and one person then sealed the bags.
Other helpers came from time to time taking the completed sealed bags to the packing station for the boxes to be filled, sealed and placed on pallets ready for dispatch to Kenya.
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