Warsaw’s seventh Feed My Starving Children event is set for October.
Feed My Starving Children is a Christian nonprofit organization founded in 1987 that provides nutritionally complete meals for malnourished children. The meals include rice, vegetables, soy and vitamins, specifically formulated to alleviate malnutrition. The MobilePack event is an opportunity for the community to come together and pack these meals.
Warsaw MobilePack Chairperson Megan Stone said Feed My Starving Children will be Oct. 21-24 at the Warsaw Community High School TRAC to pack nutritionally complete meals for malnourished children around the world. She said 5,000 volunteers are expected to participated, including over 2,000 Warsaw Community School students.
There will be three community shifts for Oct. 21-23 from 6 to 8 p.m. and open to the public. People have to register for those shifts at www.warshawmobilepack.com.
There will also be five school shifts. A corporate challenge will be held from 2-4:40 p.m. Oct. 23, where 500 business leaders will compete for the Hunger Hero Trophy in a packing competition includes packing, sealing, measuring and weighing meals.
Registration for volunteers for community shifts open Sept. 16.
Warsaw MobilePack is inviting people who desire to be more involved in the packing event to sign up to be specialized volunteers. These individuals will help manage the Warsaw MobilePack shifts in registration, floor support and warehousing. These volunteers will be trained and fed and will help to keep the shifts running smoothly.
If you have a few hours to volunteer, sign up by contacting Clarice Nist at [email protected] or register at www.fmsc.org/volunteer-listing/?mobilepack=2410-076SV
Stone said communities raise money to pay for the ingredients, volunteers pack the meals and the meals are then shipped to partners around the world. The partners pay for the shipping cost. Meals are shipped to countries like Haiti, Malawi, Uganda, Chad, Nicaragua, Malawi and Lesotho.
Sponsorship information is due by Sept. 1, Stone said. Sponsorship helps pay for the ingredients. People are not expected to pay to pack, “it is completely give as you are able.” Corporate sponsorship helps to cover the costs for those who want to participate to pack.
Warsaw’s Feed My Starving Children has packed 5 million meals so far, Stone said. Each meal cost 29 cents and the goal is to pack 1 million meals, so the financial goal is $291,000. Stone said $106 feeds a child for a year.