Valentines’ Day 2008 was a special one for employees of subsidiaries of The Schwan Food Company. At Schwan plants and offices around the U.S. (Marshall, Minn., Stilwell, Okla., Deer Park and Pasadena Tex., Salina, Kan. Hollywood, Fla., Atlanta, Ga. and Florence, Ken.), employees raised more than $5,000, mostly in spare change, to support a unique new giving promotion.
The Change Our World campaign is a partnership between Schwan’s Food Service, Inc., a Schwan subsidiary, and the Global Child Nutrition Foundation (GCNF). The campaign’s mission is to educate and raise awareness about global hunger. Everyday there are 300 million hungry children in developing nations around the globe. With the Change Our World program, Schwan and the GCNF are working to eliminate childhood hunger across the globe through the creation of self-sustaining school nutrition programs. Schwan’s employees surpassed their goal of $5,000.
“The Schwan donation will help get the momentum going,” said Pat McCoy, vice president of school food service for Schwan. “We can post results on the campaign Web page so schools can see that we are contributing too.”
The Schwan Valentine’s Day campaign was only the beginning. Change Our World will be launched in thousands of schools across the U.S. in March and April. In addition to the educational curriculum of Change Our World, hundreds of thousands of students in the U.S. will have a chance to make a positive impact in the lives of millions of other children around the world. Spare change given by students in the U.S. will help feed millions of hungry children. Also, students and school staff can post their success stories or challenge other schools in their region through the Change Our World Web site. To help with the campaign, the School Nutrition Association declared April as Global Child Nutrition Month.
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