UIS students to pack 30,000 meals for Martin Luther King Jr. day
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (WICS/WRSP) — As we honor Martin Luther King Junior Day, on Jan 20th, the University of Illinois students packed up 30 thousand meals.
The healthy meals will be donated to a couple of local charitable organizations in celebration of the national Martin Luther King Junior day of service.
Students will pack meals made from dry ingredients in a high energy assembly line process during a “pack shack feed the funnel party.”
The meals will be donated to the Kumler Food Pantry, MERCY Communities, The Salvation Army, Helping Hands of Springfield, Inner City Mission, Grace Lutheran Food Pantry, Washington Street Mission, Asbury Children’s Supper Hour, St. Paul AME Church, District 186’s Feitschans Elementary School, and the UIS Stars Food Pantry.
