What an amazing and successful year of giving! Despite the sweltering heat of August, more than 70 volunteers from Christmas for Breakfast and St. Cecilia Church gathered to package dry meals in collaboration with Rise Against Hunger. Over 20,000 meals were packaged within four hours, an astonishing record even by Rise Against Hunger standards!

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Each meal contained essentials to feed medium-sized families, which included necessary grains, dehydrated vegetables & vitamins, and soy proteins. This year, our contributions will be shipped out to El Salvador and distributed among primary schools in underprivileged areas. The initiative to serve meals to underserved students is something that Christmas for Breakfast wholeheartedly supports, as we also seek to provide adequate sustenance to marginalized Vietnamese and Cambodian communities affected by poverty, lack of education, and HIV/AIDs. Collaborations such as this give me hope that we can make a difference to support an incoming generation of brilliant minds — one meal at a time