Then Feed Just One Hosting Annual Event in MUC Pit
Then Feed Just One (TFJO) is hosting their biggest packaging feed event on Oct. 25 in the MUC pit. The club was started at USD in 2016 by two USD students and has been an active club on campus since. Then Feed Just One is an organization based out of Sioux City.
Grant Budden, the president of TFJO, said they are expected to package 30,000 meals at this years event Budden also said the pre-prepped meals will be sent to families in Honduras later.
“So what [TFJO] does every year is send shipping containers of food, clothes and supplies over to Honduras every year,” Budden said. “Our goal for this [years event] is to pack 30,000 meals on Wednesday.”
Budden said some of his goals as president were to extend the budget of the TFJO with the help of the Student Government Association on campus. This is where they receive most of their funds and others can be through fundraisers.
“Through our Pizza Ranch fundraisers, we are working to slowly build our [budget] up,” Budden said. “Then we usually do another Pizza Ranch fundraiser and the clothing drive. We try to do three or four events a year. It’s just hard with our budget to branch out of that because it takes quite a bit of effort.”
A small portion of TFJO volunteers and club members work the event, but a larger portion are USD student volunteers. Budden said there are around 60 students who join to help each year.
“Every year, we get upwards of 60 or 70 students who participate but those that are actually members are probably close to 15 or 20. A lot of it is [students] who just find out about it and come down and want to help,” Budden said.
Budden said the packing event is a great experience for any students to would like to join and help
“For anyone who is unsure, it’s definitely a good experience, and it really is a good cost,” Budden said “Just help with little things that may not mean a lot to you now but mean everything to someone else who you may never meet.”
To help out with the packaging event, one may go to the MUC pit and can help out from 15 minutes up to two hours. The event will run from 11:00 a.m. until 5:00 p.m.
