Logan High School was a busy place on Saturday morning during the annual iFeed event to help fight hunger both here and abroad.
Rotary clubs, community businesses, and Interact clubs from seven different area schools came to the school to not only collect food donations, but to help package more than 80,000 meals that are getting shipped to Honduras.
Students from the Interact clubs came from Aquinas, Caledonia, Central, Holmen, Logan, Onalaska, and West Salem.
Teams of community members or students, working in shifts, stood around multiple tables filling bags with food such as rice. The bags were then sealed and boxed for shipment.
The Rotary and Interact clubs are working with an organization called Kids Against Hunger to get the food there for distribution. The packaged meals are leaving La Crosse next week, but it will be six to eight weeks before the food reaches Honduras because it is all being transported by boat.
As this took place in the fieldhouse, people were dropping off food donations outside the entrance to Logan.
The items were sorted into different bins, such as canned goods or toiletries for example.
Everything that was donated goes to the Hunger Task Force for distribution to food pantries around the area.
This is the ninth year of iFeed. During that time, one of the organizers said they’ve packed more than 640,000 meals and collected over 200,000 food items.
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