January 13, 2015 (Louisville, Ky.) On Saturday, January 24 from noon to 2 p.m., more than 150 parishioners from the three parishes of the Pax Christi Collaborative (St. Elizabeth of Hungary, Our Mother of Sorrows, and St. Therese) will come together to package 20,000 meals to be provided to the people of Burkina Faso in West Africa. This event will take place in the St. Therese Parish gymnasium (1107 East Kentucky Street).
In October of 2014, the three parishes collected more than $10,000, which will pay for at least 20,000 meals. Working in collaboration with Catholic Relief Services and Stop Hunger Now, the parishes will package the elements (bags of rice, soy, dehydrated vegetables, and vitamin supplements) of these meals, which then will be sent to Burkina Faso, one of the poorest countries in the world.
Catholic Relief Services is the official international humanitarian agency of the Catholic community in the United States and is a leader in innovative, humanitarian programming that helps people live to their full potential with dignity. Stop Hunger Now is an international hunger relief organization that coordinates the distribution of food and other lifesaving aid around the world. The three parishes of the Pax Christi Collaborative are three of 111 parishes in the Archdiocese of Louisville, which includes 200,000 Catholics in 24 counties of Central Kentucky.
