Saint Mary's School, Raleigh, NC, to package 20,000 meals For Stop Hunger Now - Oct. 17, 2012

Oct. 15, 2012 - PRLog -- As the highlight of Saint Mary’s School’s Community Service Week 2012, October 15-19, the entire student body, along with faculty, staff and members of the board of trustees will work together to package 20,000 meals for Stop Hunger Now in the school’s Bacon Gym from 1-3 p.m. on Wednesday, Oct. 17. The project is part of the school’s year-long community service focus on hunger issues, both in the local community and around the world. Members of the media are invited to cover this event involving two Raleigh organizations – Saint Mary’s School and Stop Hunger Now.

About Stop Hunger Now:

Stop Hunger Now is a Raleigh-based international hunger relief organization that coordinates the distribution of food and other life-saving aid around the world. The organization is driven by a vision of a world without hunger and a mission to end hunger in our lifetime by providing food and life-saving aid to the world's most vulnerable people and by creating a global commitment to mobilize the necessary resources. Stop Hunger Now’s meal packaging program provides volunteers the opportunity to package dehydrated, high protein, and highly nutritious meals that are used in crisis situations and in school feeding programs for schools and orphanages in developing countries around the world.

About Saint Mary’s School:

Saint Mary's School in Raleigh, N.C., is an independent, Episcopal, college-preparatory, boarding and day school dedicated to academic excellence and personal achievement for girls in grades 9-12. As an Episcopal school, Saint Mary’s School, through its community service program, strives to instill in its students a commitment to use the gifts and privileges they have been given to help others.