More than 150 Springfield City School District high school students participated in a meal pack to benefit children in the South African country of Lesotho on Thursday.
This is the sixth year that the District has partnered with the Lesotho Nutrition Initiative (LNI) to host a meal pack. The goal each year is to pack 30,000 meals in one school day.
LNI was founded by a group of students and faculty at Wittenberg University who were concerned about childhood malnutrition in Lesotho. LNI provides meals containing nutritional supplements to children in the country who have been diagnosed as suffering from severe/chronic malnutrition and stunting. The meals provided not only halt malnutrition, but also reverse long-term effects of the illness.
“There are so many wonderful benefits to this project,” said SCSD Superintendent Dr. Bob Hill. “The LNI Meal Pack breaks up the traditional school day by allowing students to perform a humanitarian service right in their school gym and makes a direct connection between their hometown and another country. The students are immediately able to see the impact that is made by dedicating just a couple hours of their day.”
Thank you to the student volunteers who spent their time on this service project!