The Lunch Times September

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August 2013 Edition #3

this Issue:

The Strength of

Lemonade

Summer of

Service 2013

Wrap Up

HOT SHOT

Tanzania Trips

2014

How Can You

Bring TLP to

Your Child’s

School?

Farewell Mr.

Senare

Ernest is on the

Move!

TLPBeneft

Luncheon

Rex’s Corner...

The Strength of Lemonade!

This issue was going to be illed with stories of the Summer of Servicesuccesses here in the Charlotte area, and it sill is, we won’t disappoint, butunbeknown to us SoS was happening without our direct input elsewhere! By the power of community, an old friendof TLP in Southern Pines, NC happened to be speaking toa colleague of hers in the Raleigh area and she mentionedTLP and here’s how a handful of lemons turned into over

6,400 meals: Taken from an email to us from The Rev. BettyM. Glover, Interim Rector at Church of the Good Shepherd,Rocky Mount, NC.

“I returned from vacay, to ind a plastic baggie full of $34.00 on my desk wa note that said there had been a lemonade stand, these were the proceedand the girls who’d worked the stand wanted the money to ‘feed children’.found about TLP and suggested in a newsletter article that the parishioneof the Church of the Good Shepherd prayerfully provide the remainder of

$85 it would cost to provide a day’s lunch at the school you work with. So,two Sunday’s ago I stood up at Announcements and said something aboutTLP, and encouraged parishioners to either hold another Lemonade Standprayerfully consider giving donations so we could send the $85.

Well, Church of the Good Shepherd is full of very generous parishioners,many of whom have a deep-set passfor feeding the hungry – particularlychildren. So, the next day, I learned f

the treasurer that we had gathered$609 – way beyond the $85 to feedlunch for one day to the students! Gois Good – All the Time – and so are tparishioners of Church of the GoodShepherd!!”

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Pictured are: Chloe (8), Ella (8), Alex (8),Caroline (8), Camryn (8), Bess (8), Riley(7), Eliza Craig (9), Macie (7), Addison (5)

and Caroline (5).



IT’S A WRAP!TLP’s 1st Annual Summer of Service BringsHome the Message and the Bacon!

On June 15th, we kicked off our irst annual

Summer of Service and WOW what asummer it has been! The Lunch Project wants to deeply thank everyone for theirefforts and intentions during our Summerof Service. We consider this summer ahuge success. All thanks to you! We had

over 150 hours of service performed inour community by kidsat our meet-ups, not to mention the adults

who brought them andparticipated too! That’sa real impact!

We had 14+ familiesput on their own kid-led

fundraisers. Donations are still rolling in from family projects!We’ll let you know a total when we make it oficial but at

least 20 lunches this year are going to be sponsored by the efforts of kids. That isso beautiful! Reply to [email protected] if you still need to turn in yourdonation, pick your family date to sponsor, or if you still have plans to do a

project...She’d like to help! We are so proud of every one of the kids who usedtheir creativity, talents and the hours of their summer break to help feedhungry kids on the other side of the world. And from what we heard, you had

fun doing it too! What a great life lesson! The agreement was to raise at least $85, but to be as creative andinviting as possible. The other component of SoS wasgathering together at different venues to assist localservice projects in their mission.

The summer ended up being peppered with stories of lemonade stands, yard sales, bake sales and themed

events. The Smolowitz family hosted a pirate themedmini-camp and then a ire safety mini-camp. The Sistrunk family organizeda basketball tournament. The Hindinfamily had a very successful bake salecomplete with a very sub-Saharan feel...lies! Abby and Meagan Matthews hosted a mini-camp for their youngersiblings’ friends. They were camp counselors for iver 4 and 5 year oldswho enjoyed playing games, crafting and snacking. The Morgan family hada fabulous tea party and Silas dressed up proudly for the occasion! Thenthe Bowron family had a lemonade stand and the Phillips family a slide

event for kids!

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The Hochstrasser familywas one of our irst families to post theirphilanthropy actionon June 22 with theirlemonade stand and

Aurora who is only 7years old ran a standnear her local TCBY. TheWofford family had asplendid yard sale an thePeters family, who had a

movie night at their home hosted one of the most creative events.

HOT SHOT!The Pruitt family worked together and organized multiple events.Not only dis Meredith, aged 9, have a lemonade stand and a donut stand, she decided to think outside the box and have a sponsoredevent she named Hoops for Hunger. Getting the whole family involved,

gathering sponsors usingsocial media and face-to-faceinvitations, Meredith was ableto gather enough interest inher shooting hoops for anhour staight late in the evening

August 18th. Starting at 8PMshe donned her favorite schoolcolors and started shooting. By8:49PM, she was 1t 196 andby the end of hour Meredithhad netted 230 balls! Whenasked if she thought she wouldbe able to last an hour, shereported afterwards that shewas conident she could doit. Mom Laura said, “She was

just so stinkin’ cute and didn’t stop once. I’m so proud of her!” Her grandfather Reid has

now nicknamed her Hot Shot! Her older sister Sally Reid held a yardsale and relected on the experience acknowledging that Meredith didsomething unique and raised people’s interest. Yard sales are a placewhere people are looking to ind a bargain. Nevertheless, she enjoyedsupporting Meredith and knows that the end result is still the sameand the money they raised as a family with support the children inTanzania. Sally Reid has plans to manage Meredith in the future!



Truly a Summer of Service

Our Summer of Service familieshelped organize tons

of food at Loaves& Fishes, foodthat will go to 18pantries throughout Mecklenburg County,North Carolina andwill help feed thosein need.

They also gathered and created Blessings Bundles for local

charity, Bright Blessings. The bundles will bless transient homeless children with supplies to stay clean and keep warm.Transient children are constantly moving from place to placewith their family, often sleeping in cramped motel rooms oreven cars and always with few belongings. SoS families illed bags with personal care items, rolledeach bag into a leece blanket and tied it with ribbon and a cuddly companion.

Lastly, our families prepared well over 1,00 pars of shoes for distribution to kids in need at Samaritan’s Feet.

How Can You Bring TLP to Your Child’s School?

Our education program goes on. In the school year, The Lunch Project comes to elementaryclassrooms with a kid-friendly talk on global hunger, African culture and problem-solving – how

we can all make a difference! We would loveto talk to your child’s class! Let Sarah knowif you can get us an introduction to yourclassroom teacher or school administrator.Our presentation even addresses areas of

Common Core!

It is not too late to complete your SoSproject. We will have actual igures of thenumbers of meals that SoS ‘13 provided inthe next issue of The Lunch Times. If youthink your school would like TLP to comeand speak this semester, please contact Sarah at [email protected].





Exclusively designed TLP Lunchskins and T-shirts!

Lunchskins, which are reusable lunch bags, are available for purchase. [email protected] with “lunchskin” in the subject line. The cost per lunchskin is $10 and 50% of that goes directly to lunch money. If you are

interested in a TLP T-shirt, please email us at [email protected] with

T-shirt size in the subject line. Shirts are $20 each and come in a variety of adult sizes.

Thanks to the efforts of SPRC, Ernest Is On the Move!

With the generous help of the men and women of the Charlotte South Park Rotary Club, the dream of serving approximately 900 kids a hot meal in

Tanzania, East Africa becameeven more of a reality thissummer. TLP Team Memberand In-Country Coordinator,Ernest Philemon will bebetter able to provide long-term support at LemanyataPrimary School due to theefforts of SPRC in assisting himin completing the purchaseof a car. Hooray for folks likeyou guys who never say neverand always see “possibilities”rather than “impossibilities.”

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Saying Goodbye to Mr. Sanare

It is with a very heavy, but grateful heart that we say goodbye to Mr. Zephania Sanare, Headmasterat Lemanyata Primary School. It is common in the Tanzania school system for teachers to bemoved from one school to another and Lemanyata is no exception, but Mr. Sanare is a special

man. He had the wisdom the day he met Rebecca Wofford, a lowly law professor fromsunny Charlotte, NC on a trip with the CharlotteLaw School to ask her to help him get these

children food. And she did. And here we are.

Tanzania Trip(s) 2014

Jeremy is in the throws of planning TWO trips in2013. The irst one will happen the irst week inJanauary, if we have enough interest. The second

will be the irst week in June just like the ‘12 and ‘13 trips. If you are interested in either of these trips, we need to knowASAP since seats are illing up. Deposits for the Januarytrip are going to be collected in September and the Januarytrip will have a different safari then the June trip due to thedifferent season. For more information on the trips, pleaseemail Jeremy Early at [email protected].

With trip plans in the hopper, we know from past experience that this the time to be collecting schoolsupplies (chalk, lined paper, writing tablets, dry erasemarkers, colored pencils, construction paper) and anyadditional funding fro desks, construction projects and incidentals. If you have any interest indonating school supplies or money, please send them to: Rebecca Wofford, c/o The Lunch

Project, 3126 Selwyn Avenue, Charlotte, NC 28209

LAST BUT NOT LEAST... SAVE THE DATE! SAVE THE DATE! SAVE THE DATE! SAVE THE DATE! SAVE THE DATE!

THE FIRST ANNUAL LUNCHEON for THE LUNCH PROJECT

The Lunch Project will host its irst annual Luncheon on October 17, 2013 from 11:30 to 1:30 at Byron’s South End loacated at 101 W. Worthington Avenue, Suite 180, Charlotte, NC 28202. Fortickets, please email [email protected] with the word “luncheon” in the subject line.

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Hey kids! You want to see and hear

something beautiful? Get your Mom

or Dad to help you click on this

link and hear the sounds of lunch

at Lemanyata Primary School in Arusha, Tanzania.

Parents: This link takes you to a videoon YouTube uploaded by Ernest.Please do not leave your childrenalone on YouTube!

At the sound of a ringing bell, fashioned out of a wheel rim, the

children come running from the classrooms, into the windy,

dusty school yard and line up at the large green containers,

holding their hot corn porridge lunch for that day! The delight

and laughter of the children, along with their enthusiasm and

oblivion to their circumstances is a wonderful sight to witness.

• What do you notice about the school in Arusha that is the

same as yout school? (Bell, uniforms, classrooms, happiness,

laughter?)

• What do you notice about the school that is different?

(Uniforms, lunch outdoors, no packed lunch?)

• How do you think you could make a difference at this school?

• How do you think you could make a difference at your school?

The Lunch Project supplies hot lunches to students at Lemanyata Primary

School in Arusha, Tanzania and inspires service in elementary school-age

children across the U.S.

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Lunchtime at Lemanyata!

REX’SCORNER





TLP TEAM... SO GOOD TO MEET YOU!

Jeremy EarlyDirector of Global Operations

Kate Hindine-Newsletter Editor

The children of Lemanyata

Primary School

Hunt Wofford

Director of Operations

Sarah Brock

Financial Advisor

Kelsey Dorset

Director of Marketing

Sarah Morgan

Director of Education Program

Rebecca Wofford

Executive Director

Ernest PhilemonIn-Country Coordinator

Tricia Sistrunk

Blogger

The Rev. Rex Bartholomew

was a minister who dedicated

his life to mission and service work and believed all children

deserved a chance to succeed.

Rex inspired this project and is

Rebecca’s beloved father.

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