UMAC SAAC members pack meals at Feed My Starving Children
ST. PAUL -- The Upper Midwest Athletic Conference (UMAC) Student-Athlete Advisory Committee (SAAC) convened in Chanhassen, Minn. on Monday, Feb. 22 after their biannual meeting to serve at Feed My Starving Children. 2010 was the second year that the conference’s student-athlete leadership group participated in service together.
In all, 25 UMAC representatives including students, faculty advisors and UMAC Commissioner Corey Borchardt joined together with two other groups to pack 14,904 meals in a two-hour period of time. Those meals, put together by 53 people in all, will feed 41 kids in need for an entire year.
“I enjoyed seeing our student-athlete committee take such a strong initiative in wanting to do a conference-wide service project,” said Borchardt. He added, “It is a unique and extraordinary experience to see student-athletes from multiple institutions work together for the greater good versus facing off against one another on the court or field of competition.”
Feed My Starving Children (FMSC) is a non-profit organization that is committed to feeding starving children hungry in body and spirit. Since 1987, children and adults have hand-pack meals at FMSC formulated specially for starving children, and the organization ships the meals to more than 60 countries around the world. Deliveries in the past year have been sent to Haiti, Honduras and Malawi. For more information, go to fmsc.org.