CONTACT:
Mary E. Petersen
Community Relations & Development Director
Penick Village
(910) 692-0428
mpetersen@penickvillage.org
www.penickvillage.org
‘Stop Hunger Now Event’ to be held at Penick Village
Southern Pines, N.C., April 23, 2009 – On Saturday, May 9, 2009 from 9:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m., the Auditorium at Penick Village will again be transformed into assembly lines for packaging meals for Stop Hunger Now, a non-profit organization that works to do just that. The North Carolina-based humanitarian outreach ministry ships prepackaged meals to people in need in crisis-stricken nations around the world. This is Penick Village’s second year of hosting this outreach event in the Auditorium in North Building.
Last fall Penick Village joined efforts with the Sandhills Cluster of Episcopal Churches in sponsoring Stop Hunger Now. At that time 60,000 meals were packaged. This year Penick Village needs volunteers, ages five years old and up, to once again come help fill plastic packages with rice, soy powder, dried vegetables, flavoring, and vitamins for shipment to those in need.
“To reach our goal to help end hunger we need money and we need volunteers,” stated Event Coordinator the Rev. Patsy Smith, Chaplain for Penick Village. “The cost of each meal is twenty-five cents. To provide 10,000 meals we need to raise $2,500.00.”
If you would like to help achieve this financial goal, make your check payable to the “Penick Village—Alms Fund,” mark it for Stop Hunger Now and mail it to Post Office Box 2001, Southern Pines, NC 28388. Donations are tax-deductible. A donation of any amount will move Penick one step closer to reaching the goal of 10,000 meals.
To register to volunteer on Saturday, May 9, 2009, please contact the Rev. Patsy Smith, Penick Village Chaplain at 692-0381. Together we can help Stop Hunger Now.