By Monty Siekerman
Why do 100 ONU students wear hairnets and disposable gloves? It's for sanitary reasons for when the students packed 20,000 meals in McIntosh Center on Saturday afternoon.

The food packets go to the hungry: 1,000 meals to ReStore in Ada, 6,000 meals to the West Ohio Food Bank and the rest to the African nation of Lesotho.

The nutritious meals consisted of a blend of rice, soy, vegetables, vitamins and minerals.

The meals will be given to those suffering from hunger and malnutrition. Ingredients cost about 27 cents a meal.

Brittany Toney, a fourth year pharmacy student from Greenwood, Ind., coordinated the Pack-A-Way Hunger event. She reported that the ONU volunteers packed the many meals in an hour and a half.

Lesotho is a landlocked country completely surrounded by South Africa with a population of 2 million, 40 percent of whom earn less than $1.25 a day.

Photo:

Here's Kristina Flax (left) and with coordinator BrittanyToney, who put it all together.