Irene Russell

After seeing a hugely successful meal pack take place at the Rotary Convention in Brazil, Irene spearheaded the project to bring a similar activity to the UK. Working with charity Rise Against Hunger (formerly Stop Hunger Now), Irene, led efforts to raise £25,000 from 28 different Rotary clubs to make the meal pack a reality.

In August 2016 over 500 volunteers, aged six to 92, packed over 100,000 meals, which are now feeding children in the poverty-stricken area of Nairobi, Kenya. Irene, pictured above at the even in August, also hosted a meal packing at the Rotary Conference in Manchester, where 16,000 meals were packed to be distributed to Zimbabwe.