Illinois 4-H'ers Package 1,000,000 Meals for the Hungry
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Illinois 4-H’ers Package 1,000,000 Meals for the Hungry
Bill Million, Extension Youth Development - University of Illinois
Wednesday night 4-H’ers in Illinois packaged their one-millionth meal to help feed the hungry. Todd Gleason was there and has the story.
The weather was cold for the beginning of April…
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The weather was cold for the beginning of April, but the hearts were all warm. 4-H members and volunteers gathered in a shed to create and package up meals. It’s something they’ve been doing under the guidance of Illinois Extension’s Bill Million since 2013.
Million :20 That time was the same year we launched the 4-H Feeding & Growing Our Communities Initiative here in Illinois. Meal packaging has been one of the integral components of engaging 4-H members, 4-H clubs, and communities that address hunger and food insecurity here in Illinois.
That’s no small accomplishment. Feeding America puts the number of food insecure in the United States at 13.4% with far more than a million of those in Illinois. That means they’re not sure when or where they’ll get their next meal. And now a million of those meals have been packaged up for them by kids like Marshall Bowman. He says the volunteer work is a good thing to do.
Bowman :05 Because you are giving people food so they can live.
Marshall and his 4-H friends in Morgan County packaged up about 12,000 meals in an hour. It’s an event that’s been happening all across Illinois for the past five years. In those 12,000 meals was the 1 millionth package and so very much more says Bill Million.
Million :28 Oh absolutely. They are learning leadership, civic engagement, how to work together as a team. They are learning to be able to follow directions. We’ve had Clover Bud members, the youngest audience we have in the Illinois 4-H program with us tonight, and it is at that age were they are beginning to learn cooperation, teamwork, and being able to follow direction and at the end of the evening have a good feeling that they were able to help somebody else.
A somebody else that needed their help.
Illinois 4-H’ers Package 1,000,000 Meals for the Hungry
Bill Million, Extension Youth Development - University of Illinois
Wednesday night 4-H’ers in Illinois packaged their one-millionth meal to help feed the hungry. Todd Gleason was there and has the story.
The weather was cold for the beginning of April…
1:53 radio
2:02 radio self-contained
1:53 tv
2:02 tv cg
The weather was cold for the beginning of April, but the hearts were all warm. 4-H members and volunteers gathered in a shed to create and package up meals. It’s something they’ve been doing under the guidance of Illinois Extension’s Bill Million since 2013.
Million :20 That time was the same year we launched the 4-H Feeding & Growing Our Communities Initiative here in Illinois. Meal packaging has been one of the integral components of engaging 4-H members, 4-H clubs, and communities that address hunger and food insecurity here in Illinois.
That’s no small accomplishment. Feeding America puts the number of food insecure in the United States at 13.4% with far more than a million of those in Illinois. That means they’re not sure when or where they’ll get their next meal. And now a million of those meals have been packaged up for them by kids like Marshall Bowman. He says the volunteer work is a good thing to do.
Bowman :05 Because you are giving people food so they can live.
Marshall and his 4-H friends in Morgan County packaged up about 12,000 meals in an hour. It’s an event that’s been happening all across Illinois for the past five years. In those 12,000 meals was the 1 millionth package and so very much more says Bill Million.
Million :28 Oh absolutely. They are learning leadership, civic engagement, how to work together as a team. They are learning to be able to follow directions. We’ve had Clover Bud members, the youngest audience we have in the Illinois 4-H program with us tonight, and it is at that age were they are beginning to learn cooperation, teamwork, and being able to follow direction and at the end of the evening have a good feeling that they were able to help somebody else.
A somebody else that needed their help.