Written by EHS Senior, Emily Gamboa Ordini 

On October 17, 2024, members of the EHS National Honor Society, Rotary Interact Club, Key Club, and Environmental Club were given the opportunity to participate in the Trenton Plates the World Takes project with Rise Against Hunger, Trenton Area Soup Kitchen, and Arm in Arm organizations at Cure Arena.

Trenton Plates the World Takes is a project to help provide meals for people across the world. Rise Against Hunger is a global, non-profit whose mission is to target communities with high food insecurity and ensure families are sustained with nutrition, health, and education. Arm in Arm is a non-profit charitable organization that helps the local community with food security, homelessness, and job opportunities. Trenton Area Soup Kitchen is another nonprofit organization which offers programs and services to encourage self-sufficiency and improve the quality of life for people in the Greater Trenton Area. To this end, the organizations came together and prepared a meal-packaging experience for Trenton-area community members to help combat hunger both locally and around the world.

During our time at this event, 42 student and teacher volunteers were assigned to one of three main stations. The stations included packaging food, sealing the food bags, and filling larger boxes with the food bags for shipment. Each bag packed included six servings that would be sent to people in need. After the bags were sealed, they would fill large boxes with thirty-six smaller meal bags. Each large box can feed one child for an entire school year! In total, our volunteers collaborated with other community members to pack 25,000 bags out of 100,000 bags overall completed during this event! Ewing High School service clubs look forward to future partnerships with Rise Against Hunger!