Houston Dynamo Football Club hosted its fourth annual Kids’ Meals Packing Day to end childhood hunger in partnership with Kroger at Shell Energy Stadium on Saturday, June 24.
As food insecurity is one of the Club’s five focus pillars in the local community, Dynamo and Dash Charities, the Club’s official 501(c)(3) non-profit arm, supported staff members from Houston-area Kroger stores along with staff and players from the Houston Dynamo FC and Houston Dash who volunteered to pack meals for Houston’s underserved kids.
Dynamo player Tate Schmitt and Dash player Emily Curran were in attendance, CRO Jeff Stewart and VP of Community Engagement, Valerie Holland were also there representing the Club, along with Kids’ Meals CEO, Beth Harp.
Kroger donated the packaged meals to Kids’ Meals Houston for distribution throughout the city. At this year’s event, more than 10,000 meals were packaged and distributed to children around Houston.
Kids’ Meals mission is to end childhood hunger in Houston by delivering free healthy meals, year-round to the doorsteps of the city’s hungriest preschool-aged children and through collaboration provide their families with resources to end the cycle of poverty. The organization has been in operation since 2006 and has made and delivered more than 12 million free and healthy meals to food insecure children throughout the city of Houston. Kids’ Meals is also a first responder to children ages five and under facing debilitating hunger due to extreme poverty.
