In a unique pairing of grown up and kid effort, there will be a Wilton community-wide benefit concert for Stop Hunger Now this Sunday, April 26. What’s so unique about this year’s effort is the coordination of many people to raise money not just for the annual meal packaging event sponsored by the Wilton Interfaith Action Committee (Wi-ACT) every October, but also for a new meal packaging event at Middlebrook School that is being organized by some very philanthropic Wilton teens.
Middlebrook 7th grader Patrick Cummins has organized an effort to try and package 20,000 meals through a “Power of One” curriculum his teachers use to teach students that each person can do something to change the world. Money raised at this Sunday’s concert will help pay for the materials needed to package all the meals. Patrick and his friends are hoping to raise the $5,800 needed to be able to reach their goal of 20,000 meals packaged.
Students in the Middlebrook music and chorus program and the Middlemen singers (as well as some Wilton High School students) will perform at the concert along with Wilton Police Officer Anna Rita Tornello, a lyric soprano, and Erica vanderLinde Feidner, an accomplished concert pianist. Money raised at the concert will benefit both Middlebrook’s 20,000 meal event on May 14 and also the planned 200,000 meal Wi-ACT event this October 24 (up from 160,000 meals packaged last October 2014) with over 800 volunteers doing the packaging during five shifts.
Admission to the concert is $10. The concert begins at 4 p.m. at the WEPCO Church Complex, at 36 New Canaan Rd..