Palatine team packs food for Haiti’s needy

Palatine Youth Baseball believes that the team that pours together, scores together, and it believes in helping those who need it.

The 11-U travel baseball team, the Red Heat, poured food into bags at the Feed My Starving Children Schaumburg facility on Jan. 13.

In an assembly-line format, they packed 10,152 fortified MannaPack Rice meals, which will be sent to Haiti — to feed 30 children for a year!

Palatine Red Heat Travelers has partnered with FMSC for several years for good reason. The organization uses 93 percent of all donations to feed our world’s hungriest. Founded in 1987, Feed My Starving Children is a Christian hunger relief charity that distributes nutritionally complete meals in nearly 70 countries, including the U.S. The meals, just 24 cents each, are paid for by donors and packed by volunteers. FMSC has maintained the highest four-star rating from Charity Navigator for seven consecutive years.

The Red Heat team is managed by Kurt Ferry and coached by Kevin Higgins, Tom Kurka and Gary Schneberger. Players are Alex Baraban, Luke Bilek, Drew Conlee, Will Ferry, Austin Higgins, Ray Kim, Ben Kurka, Jake Langston, Michael Murakami, Tim Okonek, David Rizzo and Dale Schneberger.