Each year, the Wilton Interfaith Action Committee (Wi-ACT) holds an annual meal-packaging event for Stop Hunger Now. Last year, hundreds of Wilton residents volunteered to package 165,000 meals, enabling 452 needy children to be fed for an entire year in educational programs where they are nourished in mind as well as in body.
The annual event is now not only Stop Hunger Now, Inc.’s largest meal-packaging event in all of New England but also one of its largest nationally. In the five years of Wi-ACT’s meal-packaging to date, 612,000 meals have been packaged feeding a total of 1,675 children for an entire year.
At the 2016 meal-packaging event in October, Wi-Act hopes once again to package 165,000 meals. But at the $0.29 per meal it costs Wi-ACT to cover the bulk ingredients, the total cost to package those 165,000 meals—and feed those 452 children for one year—is $48,000.
This Sunday, May 1, Wi-ACT is hosting a Stop Hunger Now Benefit Concert, to help raise funds that will go toward October’s meal-packaging event. For the second year in a row, Middlebrook students will again perform under their STRIDE Instructional Leader and Choral Director Janet Nobles, singing and performing to help make one of Wilton’s most incredible community acts of GOOD and generosity a reality.
Sunday’s Stop Hunger Now Benefit Concert begins at 4 p.m. at St. Matthew’s Episcopal Church, 36 New Canaan Rd.. All proceeds will benefit Wi-ACT’s Stop Hunger Now efforts.