Wednesday, February 18, 2009
Feed My Starving Children
A great opportunity for local volunteering is coming up at our church this summer. On June 5-6, we are hosting a Mobile Packing Day at the church (actually at CCA) where we will be packing 100,000 meals for children all over the world in a day and a half. We need at least 500 volunteers to be able to do it! The meals are packets engineered specifically for malnourished children, and only cost 17 cents per meal. They contain rice, soy protein, dehydrated vegetables, and vitamin-fortified chicken flavoring. I have tasted the mixture once it's cooked up, it tastes a lot like Rice-A-Roni. For more information about the organization that we are teaming with for this, go to www.fmsc.org. All of their meals are packed by ...