Volunteers

on the North Shore of Boston, in and around Teaneck, New Jersey, and in Montana’s Gallatin Valley assembled enough meals to provide every student in our four partner schools with lunch every weekday of 2024—over 100,000 meals!

In addition, we have packed enough for all 50 children at My Father’s House orphanage, recently escaped from suburban Port au Prince north to much safer accommodation near Cap Haitièn.

Unfortunately, gang activity disrupted the flow of packathon meals through the Customs Office in Port au Prince for most of 2023.

For 2024,

our packathon meals will go through Cap Haitien instead of Port au Prince, and we trust delivery will be simpler. Each shipment includes several pallets, three or four months worth of food, to be transported about 200 miles. We don’t know the condition of those roads or how much of the way will be through territory currently controlled by the gangs, but we will do what we must to get food to the children.