Disaster often strikes without warning or time for preparation. The results, as we have recently witnessed, can be devastating. The Ready Relief mission is to insure that schools, with all their children and staff, are nutritionally sustained in a healthy and safe manner during a time of unexpected crisis. We seek to accomplish this mission by providing emergency food that is easily accessible, nutritionally balanced, flavorful, and cost effective.

Ready Relief brings the food packaging operation to your school with ingredients and supplies enough to provide for every student and staff member. Similar to an assembly line, students come to the set-up food packaging area, usually in a gymnasium or cafeteria, in 30-minute shifts and package their own emergency food. The meals consist of rice, protein-packed lentils, dehydrated vegetables, and chicken-flavored (a vegetarian blend/mix with no MSG) multi-vitamin powder. Food packaged at your school is then stored at your school for one year. Ready Relief food is accessible and available for emergency use during that school year. You are now Ready for Today!

Before leaving your school, the Ready Relief team will schedule another packaging date with you for the following year. At the time of your second event, if the food from the prior year was not used, it is re-stocked into the COTN truck for shipment overseas to help feed starving children in Africa and the Dominican Republic. In the meantime, your new students are enjoying their opportunity to package food for their new school year. The end of this cycle gives your school and your students the opportunity to not only become more civic minded by helping prepare themselves for a disaster, but also globally minded, with a greater awareness of world poverty and hunger. Their ‘hands-on’ participation will broaden their understanding and increase their compassion capability for the world’s needy children. You have now provided Relief for Tomorrow!