Wendy, Jackie, Casey, Sue, Jennie, Beth and I just got back from the Puyallup Fairgrounds where we worked for two hours bagging meals for Feed My Starving Children, a non-profit Christian organization. Wendy, Casey and Sue did it last year and told us about it this year, so we pitched in.
What an amazing, warp-speed two hours. We gathered around tables in groups. Each had a specific job: measuring out veggies, soy and rice, weighing each combined bag carefully, sealing it, loading it into boxes. Each box held 36 bags; each bag held six meals.
There were probably ten tables in the place and around 100 volunteers all told. In just two hours we filled 244 boxes.
36x6=3,888 meals per box
3888x244=948,672 meals packed in two hours.
They say that's enough to feed 625 children for a solid year.
And we were just the final two-hour shift in the two-day event. The emcee said 1000 people had turned out to volunteer, so multiplying what our 100-person shift did by ten, that's 6,250 kids fed for an entire year.
These events are held once a year in multiple areas around the country. If you'd like to find out if one will be held near you so you can volunteer, or more about the organization--or if you'd like to donate money to buy the food that the volunteers bag up for children--visit the link below. You'll be glad you did!
http://www.fmsc.org/
No comments:
Post a Comment