The Harbour School Wins $25,000 for Meals on Wheels for Second Time

The Harbour School at Baltimore wins Lead2Feed World Hunger Leadership Program and Donates $25,000 to Meals on Wheels of Central Maryland

For Immediate Release

The Harbour School at Baltimore

12251 Dolfield Boulevard

Owings Mills, MD 21117

443-394-3760

May 28, 2015 at 11:00 am

Winning $25,000 for Meals on Wheels of Central Maryland in 2014 was not enough for the Harbour School’s Harbouring Hope for Hunger team. These special needs students and teachers were just getting started and now they are the first school to win the Lead2Feed World Hunger Leadership Program twice! On May 28, 2015 at 11:00 am, representatives from the Yum Foundation and Lead2Feed will be at The Harbour School to present a $25,000 check to Meals on Wheels of Central Maryland on behalf of the students at the school. This is the second year in a row that Meals on Wheels of Central Maryland will benefit by the Harbour School students’ spectacular efforts.

Led by high school English teacher, Siri Llamas, the team rallied the entire school to participate in Hear the Maryland Crunch! They joined thousands of others around the state as they crunched into an apple together to spread the word that every child in Maryland should have access to a healthy breakfast (MarylandHungerSolutions.org).

From March 20th-27th, Harbouring Hope for Hunger held Hunger Awareness Week. The action packed schedule for the week included speakers from the Maryland Food Bank, Bea Gaddy Center, Meals on Wheels of Central Maryland, A Movable Feast and Maryland Hunger Solutions. They teamed up with Golden Ring Middle School to do a food drive for the Maryland Food Bank and collected over 200 pounds of food and delivered it to the food bank! The students have been reaching out world wide to spread the word on finding solutions to end hunger and they are educating other kids all over Maryland and beyond. The group developed a “What Can I Do?” resource booklet to send to other schools. These booklets are location specific to each school with statistics of hunger in their respective area and places for students to volunteer local to them. These booklets were sent out to other schools worldwide. These special needs students have even designed a board game and a comic strip based on hunger and nutrition for elementary and middle school age kids. They actually made the game pieces on the school’s 3D printer. The games were sent out to other schools in Norway, Japan, Denmark, France and Israel! They were thrilled when they received a letter from the Prime Minister of Denmark in response to the letter they sent regarding their efforts to end world hunger.

So, join Harbouring Hope for Hunger and take their pledge to work in your community. “As an intelligent, motivated and caring member of Harbouring Hope for Hunger, I pledge to volunteer my time and talents to fight hunger in my community.” Share this important and inspiring event with your audience on May 28, 2015 at 11:00 am at The Harbour School at Baltimore. Our students created a video for you. We hope you will share their incredible accomplishments with your audience.

The Harbour School is a nonpublic school serving students ages 6-21. Students at the school have been diagnosed as having learning disabilities, high functioning autism, Asperger’s Syndrome, other health impaired (primarily ADHD) and multi-disabled.

For more information on sharing this exciting event with your audience please contact:

Dr. Linda Jacobs, Executive Director Martha Schneider, Program Director

Email: ljacobs@harbourschool.org Email: mschneider@harbourschool.org

Phone: 443-394-3760 Phone: 443-394-3760