Boil for Bowls – Beaufort Life-style

RIVERVIEW CHARTER SCHOOL UNITES TO FIGHT HUNGER NEAR AND FAR
Celebrating the Empty Bowls Service Learning Project and a New Fundraiser Fueling 50,000+ Meals Worldwide

Each fall, Riverview Charter School comes collectively round a practice that’s as significant as it’s impactful — our Empty Bowls Service Learning Project. From kindergarten by eighth grade, college students dive into hands-on studying about meals insecurity, each in our personal group and throughout the globe. At every grade degree, college students discover the idea of world meals insecurity from totally different views that combine with their curriculum. For instance, as a part of their analysis on parts in chemistry class, seventh graders conduct a dietary evaluation of the nutritional vitamins and minerals of their favourite meal and examine that to the composition of the rice and soy meal that they may pack through the Rise Against Hunger occasion.

Locally, we accomplice with HELP of Beaufort to gather important meals objects for neighbors in want. With our international accomplice, Rise Against Hunger, we work facet by facet to pack 50,000 meals that can be shipped to communities experiencing starvation world wide. Since the mission started, Riverview college students have helped pack greater than 500,000 meals, which is a real testomony to the ability of collective motion and repair studying.

To proceed this work, our faculty should elevate $25,000 every year. This fall, we’re excited to introduce a brand new, adults-only occasion to assist us attain that aim: Boil for Bowls. Guests will get pleasure from dwell music from The Cluster Shucks, a Lowcountry Boil catered by LowCo on the Go, and an open bar. Sponsorships and tickets are nonetheless out there, and all proceeds will assist fund this 12 months’s meal-packing occasion. Please contact Haley Romeo ([email protected]) in case you are considering sponsoring.
With the addition of the Boil for Bowls occasion, we’re hopeful the funds raised by our schoolwide Silent Auction throughout Portfolio Night can instantly help Riverview packages, that means this mission not solely nourishes communities far and close to, but additionally strengthens our personal.

At Riverview, we consider within the energy of service studying! We rise by lifting others.