The more than 50,000 meals packed by Ursuline Sisters and their friends on Oct. 26, 2024, are destined to feed the people of the Dominican Republic.

Erika Kvak, development officer with Cross Catholic Outreach, the international organization that worked with representatives of the Ursuline Sisters on the project, emailed that the food donations would feed needy families in the Dominican Republic through a partnership with FUNDASEP, the foundation in charge of social outreach for the Diocese of San Juan de la Maguana.

An update completed for the Ursuline Sisters said FUNDASEP is able to use the food donations to deliver directly to some of the most impoverished communities in the Dominican Republic.

“Hundreds of children and their families in the communities of El Lechal, El Palero and Los Auqueyes will now receive monthly deliveries of food over the course of a year,” the update said.

The Ursuline Sisters organized the food packing event as a way to join with the public to celebrate their 150 years of ministry since arriving in Daviess County in 1874. More than 160 people gathered at the Brescia University Moore Center to pack the 50,000 meals in about three hours.