Des Moines University’s employees and students are committed to making the community a better place to live. Faculty, staff and students are actively encouraged to “do a world of good”. On August 30, seven members of the Admissions Office volunteered for a 2-hour shift with Meals from the Heartland during their 2012 packaging event. During that small amount of time, their group managed to package about 750 meals. Here are a few other stats from the annual event:
- Over 15,000 volunteers packaged meals this year
- 1,425,600 meals were packaged on Thursday (record for most meals packaged in a single day)
- A total of 5,122,008 meals were packaged this year
- The DMU Admissions table packaged .0146% of those meals
