[Palmer Trinity School press release] For the first time, Palmer Trinity School (PTS) juniors hosted a hunger project with the NGO Feeding Children Everywhere.

Feeding Children Everywhere is a not-for-profit organization that empowers and mobilizes people to assemble healthy meals for hungry children.

During the 2015-2016 school year the students raised $3,600 for this project. The class of 2017 packed 12,000 meals in one hour; each meal package costs 25 cents.

The event was held in the PTS Gym from 2:30 p.m.-3:30 p.m. The students packed a well-balanced meal that consisted of dry vegetables, dry rice, lentils, and Himalayan salt.

The Junior Class President Tiago Rachelson, organized this project, because he was inspired from a food-packing event at the HOBY Leadership Conference, which he had participated in the prior year.

“One of my greater goals last year was to help my class and think outside of myself. I thought the hunger project would be a great project to give back to the community, I wanted to see if I can give back in some sort of way to the people of Haiti,” Rachelson said.