It was truly a community event Friday and Saturday, as young and old came together to package meals  for Razorback Relief: Operation Haiti. The previously set record was broken this weekend with 1.4 million meals packaged for Haiti.

Razorback Athletics partnered with Numana, Inc. to package meals to send to the starving population of Haiti after the earthquake in January. Similar events have transpired in larger cities this year, with Kansas City setting the record of 1.2 million meals packaged.

Volunteers at Razorback Relief passed the one million mark at 1:25 p.m. Saturday, then broke the record by 4 p.m. The total meals packaged by the end of the event, three hours later, was 1,420,638.

“I want to thank everyone in the Razorback Nation for helping us set a record by packaging more than 1.4 million meals for Haiti… I was confident the people of Northwest Arkansas would respond to the need and they certainly did in a big way,” said Vice Chancellor and Director of Athletics Jeff Long. “We saw a continuing need for the people of Haiti and this event gave all of us a hands-on opportunity to make a life-changing impact on millions of people.”

The volunteers ranged from families with small children, college students, men and women from nursing homes in the area and more than 75 student athletes and coaches who teamed together to add dry ingredients together, seal them and pack the bags in boxes to be sent directly to Haiti.

The 24- hour marathon began Friday at 7 p.m. at the Randal Tyson Track Center, with a kick-off from ESPN personality Jimmy Dykes and Mayor Lioneld Jordan to rally the volunteers. The building was rumbled with the sounds of a hog call that proclaimed the event was officially underway.

Volunteers also donated more than 2,000 canned food items to be distributed in the area by the Northwest Arkansas Food Bank.