Check Out What York Football Players Are Doing During the Off Season

Information provided by Mike Kuhn, York High School Football parent

On Friday June 28, more than 100 players and coaches from the York High School Football Team traveled from Elmhurst to Schaumburg for their annual Community Service Day. The team assisted Feed My Starving Children, a nonprofit organization that supplies food to children in third world countries.  

Feed My Starving Children volunteers pack a mixture of rice, soy, flavor and vitamins into small pouches they call MannaPacks, which are then boxed and sent to places like Mexico, Africa and Haiti. On this particular day, the York team was packing food for Haiti.

As part of this project, the York Football Team received pledges from friends, family and the community to assist in paying for the supplies used to make the MannaPacks. York Football raised more than $14,000, with $5,600 going to Feed My Starving Children and the remaining $8,000 going back to the football program to assist with purchasing equipment and other needed items throughout the football season.

The team had a great day and shattered some records set by previous volunteer groups. The previous record for most food cases (36 MannaPacks per case) was 177 in a two-hour session. The York Football Team packed 189 cases in the first two-hour session. This produced 6,804 MannaPacks, which is more than 40,000 meals for the children of Haiti. The late afternoon group also set a single station record of 45 cases packed by one station in a two-hour session. 

The team worked great together, and the people from Feed My Starving Children were impressed with the output and productivity of the York High School Football Team.

Thanks go out to all the people who made pledges and assisted the York Football Team, as well as Feed My Starving Children. Also, a special thanks to Marilyn Maurella, an Elmhurst resident and development advisor for Feed My Starving Children in the Chicago area, for organizing this event.  

To learn more about Feed My Starving Children, check them out on the web at https://www.fmsc.org/donate