71,503

That’s how many meals were packaged by my kids and their schoolmates at Highlands Elementary School today.  Since 2003, Highlands has partnered with Kids Against Hunger to package high-protein, dehydrated meals to be sent to the world’s poorest countries.  This year, the food is being sent to Haiti.  The kids also raised over $7,000 to pay for the meals.

It’s incredible that a public school engages in this kind of humanitarian work.  And the teachers make it clear to the kids: we can feed the hungry people in the world; we are not helpless; we can solve the world’s problems.

It was a great day!