Samantha Gerlach, UT:10 News Reporter
February 7, 2019
February 7, 2019
TOLEDO, Ohio - UT students and faculty partnered with the Toledo community on Feb. 1 and 2 to help feed the world’s starving children.
Over one thousand volunteers filled the gym at the Health Education Center on Main Campus to pack meals for third-world countries.
Professor Clint Longenecker, distinguished professor and director of the Center of Leadership and Organizational Excellence in the College of Business and Innovation said that volunteers had to be placed on a waiting list because so many signed up.
Ninety students from the Klar Leadership Academy at the College of Business and Innovation raised $45 thousand to purchase food from the, “Feed My Starving Children” program for the two-day mobile pack.
The academy was founded in 2015 by Steven Klar, 1971 UT business alumnus and New York City real estate developer.
“We did this on behalf of the “Feed my Starving Children” organization, and they distribute the food from these mobile pack events to, uh, whatever country that needs them,” said Jason Gonring, fourth year Electrical Engineering student.
Packing shifts were two hours long, from 3 p.m. to 5 p.m. and 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. on Friday and 9 a.m. to 11 a.m. and 12 p.m. to 2 p.m. on Saturday.
The meals contained a nutritious rice and vegetable blend, prepared specifically for undernourished children.
This is the third year in a row that the Klar Leadership Academy organized the mobile pack. In 2017, volunteers packed 140 thousand meals, in 2018 they packed 173 thousand, and this year, they packed over 202 thousand meals.
Longenecker said that the academy’s goals are just to improve every year by recruiting more volunteers and packing more meals.
Over one thousand volunteers filled the gym at the Health Education Center on Main Campus to pack meals for third-world countries.
Professor Clint Longenecker, distinguished professor and director of the Center of Leadership and Organizational Excellence in the College of Business and Innovation said that volunteers had to be placed on a waiting list because so many signed up.
Ninety students from the Klar Leadership Academy at the College of Business and Innovation raised $45 thousand to purchase food from the, “Feed My Starving Children” program for the two-day mobile pack.
The academy was founded in 2015 by Steven Klar, 1971 UT business alumnus and New York City real estate developer.
“We did this on behalf of the “Feed my Starving Children” organization, and they distribute the food from these mobile pack events to, uh, whatever country that needs them,” said Jason Gonring, fourth year Electrical Engineering student.
Packing shifts were two hours long, from 3 p.m. to 5 p.m. and 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. on Friday and 9 a.m. to 11 a.m. and 12 p.m. to 2 p.m. on Saturday.
The meals contained a nutritious rice and vegetable blend, prepared specifically for undernourished children.
This is the third year in a row that the Klar Leadership Academy organized the mobile pack. In 2017, volunteers packed 140 thousand meals, in 2018 they packed 173 thousand, and this year, they packed over 202 thousand meals.
Longenecker said that the academy’s goals are just to improve every year by recruiting more volunteers and packing more meals.
 Over 1,000 volunteers came out to Feed My Starving Children event. |  Jason Gonring - Senior, Electrical Engineering |  Volunteers made over 200-thousand meals during the 2 day mobile-pack event |
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