Rotarians Pack Food - Feed My Starving Children
Aug 24 - Rotarians and other community groups spent the day assembling meal packets for Feed My Starving Children (FMSC). Through donations, FMSC provides meal packets to starving children in some of the most impoverished areas of the world. The meal formulas contain soy protein, dried vegetables, 20 vitamins and minerals, and rice. If you want more information about this organization please visit www.fmsc.org.
This was part of a larger project to pack One Million Meals during the 2013-14 celebration of 100 Years of Rotary Service in Arizona. There were Rotarians from many clubs in the valley, including ours. Volunteers scooped food into a funnel, bag handlers caught the food coming out of the funnel, passed the open bag along for weight verification, sealing, and boxing. The boxes were sealed, labeled, and are on their way to the children who so desperately need them. Each meal costs 22 cents to produce. FMSC has been 99.96% efficient in distributing over 600 million meals that have reached the hungry children for whom they were intended.
What a great way to spend part of a Saturday. In addition to the fun and fellowship around the tables with fellow Rotarians and other community groups, a valuable service toward helping to alleviate hunger around the world was performed. Over 1,200 volunteers packed 212,000 packages of food. That’s enough to feed 700 children for a year.
This was part of a larger project to pack One Million Meals during the 2013-14 celebration of 100 Years of Rotary Service in Arizona. There were Rotarians from many clubs in the valley, including ours. Volunteers scooped food into a funnel, bag handlers caught the food coming out of the funnel, passed the open bag along for weight verification, sealing, and boxing. The boxes were sealed, labeled, and are on their way to the children who so desperately need them. Each meal costs 22 cents to produce. FMSC has been 99.96% efficient in distributing over 600 million meals that have reached the hungry children for whom they were intended.
What a great way to spend part of a Saturday. In addition to the fun and fellowship around the tables with fellow Rotarians and other community groups, a valuable service toward helping to alleviate hunger around the world was performed. Over 1,200 volunteers packed 212,000 packages of food. That’s enough to feed 700 children for a year.