Feed My Starving Children

Last week (March 22 from 8-10pm), I volunteered with Feed My Starving Children with my family and boyfriend. We packed food to send to starving children in Africa. Our specific load went to Haiti. Basically, after a short introduction, twenty to thirty people work in stations in this warehouse to pack rice, soy, veggies, and vitamins in sealed bags to feed children in schools, orphanages, poor villages in nearly 70 countries. It was set up like an assembly line, so I held and sealed bags the whole time with my uncle, while the rest of our group measured and shoveled in the ingredients. Time flew by very quickly, because the work was easy and repetitive, and the people near by were fun to talk with.

At the end of the session, all the volunteers that night packed 64 boxes total, enough for 13,824 meals to feed 37 kids for a year. In the introduction and the wrap up, we were shown educational videos about the charity and the starving children it helps. 18,000 children a day die from hunger. The statistics are heartbreaking, especially given that there is more than enough food produced in the world to feed everyone. The one positive thing I learned was that since the inception of Feed My Starving Children, less and less children are dying daily of starvation. I felt proud to be a part of a cause that saves so many lives, and surprised that only two hours of my time could do such a thing. I plan to go back for the rest of my community service hours as well.

My boyfriend and I in our sexy hairnets lol:

Feed My Starving Children
1072 National Parkway
Schaumburg IL 60173
Contact Jan at 763-951-7306