The West Branch Lions Club and the Hoover Presidential Foundation are once again sponsored the Hoover Hunger Project on Oct. 23, 2021 to honor the memory of the U.S.A.’s only Iowa-born President, Herbert Hoover, who was known as the Great Humanitarian and ‘feeder of the world.’ Thanks to many generous donations, we raised $29,000 and packed 101,112 meals to be used both in Iowa and around the world.

The project was a meal packaging event using materials and ingredients from the Meals of Hope organization. We first held this event in 2014 to coincide with the commemoration of the 50^th anniversary of President Hoover’s state funeral burial at the West Branch gravesite.

In 2014, we packaged 84,000 meals. Relive some of the moments: