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Rise AGAINST HUNGER: By The Numbers

Our RISE AGAINST HUNGER was a huge success this year! Thank you to the many volunteers that gave their time and talents to make it such a wonderful day.

How many meals were packaged during our Rise event on Tuesday?
51,192 meals were packaged
How long did it take to package the meals?
Less than 6 Hours (record time!) and lots of dedicated volunteers

What was the total donated to purchase the meals?
$29,400 was donated to cover our 50,000-meal event plus enough to help Rise host another 51,372-meal upcoming event.
How many people participated today?
150+ Springmoor Residents and Staff volunteered for the event

How many students came to help?
28 Middle School Students (6th – 8th Grade) and 4 Teachers from The Montessori School of Raleigh came to help. They are students of a former Springmoor employee who loves to participate.
How many Fire Fighters came to help?
5 City of Raleigh Firemen helped haul the boxes and bags to refill the buckets with the dehydrated meal ingredients – rice, soy, vegetables, and 23 essential vitamins and minerals.

How many families came to help?
This was the big story of the day! We were thrilled to have the Residents invite their family members come and help package meals.
Libby Woods brought her son Paul.
Betty Duke was joined by her son Kent.
DG Harwood and his two daughters, Sheron and Lynn helped package meals.
Robin Wright brought her whole family plus a few extras – Scott, Spencer, Stephanie and two of their friends!
Edna Hicks was joined by her daughter, Lauren, and a friend.
Robin Hardison brought her daughter, Chadisey.
Jim and Shirley Overcash were joined by their daughter, Donna.
Kelli Sullivan’s husband, Joe came to help unload the truck.
How many years has Springmoor been doing this event?
This was our 7th year hosting a meal-packing event.
How many total meals has Springmoor packed during these events?
The Springmoor community has now packaged over 300,000 meals

RISE numbers
Each meal cost $0.29 to package. Each packet contains ingredients for 6 meals.
815 million people in the world don’t get the food they need to live a healthy life.
66 million primary school-age children attend classes hungry across the developing world.
If women farmers had the same equal access to resources as men, the number of hungry people could fall by 150 million.
Asia has the largest number of hungry people, with two-thirds of the population affected.
We look forward to helping again in 2018. Thank you Springmoor friends, family, staff and residents!

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