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Posted by: John_Hamilton on 01/02/2013 06:16 PM
Updated by: thepinetree on 01/02/2013 06:36 PM
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Mountain Christian Fellowship Packages 15,000 Meals For The Hungry
Murphys, CA..On December 16th we stopped by Mountain Christian Fellowship and found their sanctuary transformed into a highly efficient and amazing food packaging facility. Their congregation and additional volunteers from the community had come together to package nutritionally complete meals for Kids Against Hunger. In a few hours they had packaged 15,000 meals. Yes...thats not a typo... 15,000 meals. The meals will be shipped to a Pleasanton location that keeps 50,000 meals on hand at all times for needs of not only those hungry overseas but here at home as well. The shelf stable nutritionally complete meals are ready in case of a natural disaster or emergency here at home as well as abroad. Great Job Everyone!!! It was impressive to watch. More details are enclosed or by clicking the logo below...
  
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The mission of Kids Against Hunger, a humanitarian food-aid organization, is to significantly reduce the number of hungry children in the USA and to feed starving children throughout the world. Kids Against Hunger is not affiliated with or restricted to a particular religious group and does not discriminate on any basis when distributing its meals.
The organization’s approach to achieving its goal - the eradication of world hunger - includes the packaging of a highly nutritious, vitamin-fortified soy-rice casserole by volunteers at numerous locations within the USA and Canada, and the distribution of those meals to starving children and their families in over 60 countries through partnerships with humanitarian organizations worldwide. Last year alone, volunteers at Kids Against Hunger’s food packaging centers across the USA packaged forty million meals for children and their families around the world and around the corner.
The Kids Against Hunger food packaging network consists of the organization’s International Headquarters office located in New Hope, MN (a suburb of Minneapolis), a Division in Mankato, MN, and close to 100 independent non-profit food packaging "satellites" across the U.S. and Canada.
Kids Against Hunger was incorporated in 1999, but the organization’s founder, Richard Proudfit, has been involved with various hunger relief projects for over thirty years. Kids Against Hunger is a nonprofit organization recognized by the IRS for tax-deductible donations under section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code.
It is the vision of Richard Proudfit and Kids Against Hunger:
To continue setting up food packaging satellites in each state of the USA.
To spearhead community and youth volunteer packaging of Kids Against Hunger’s highly nutritious meals.
To deliver Kids Against Hunger’s food in the USA and worldwide through partnerships with other humanitarian organizations
Kids Against Hunger packages highly nutritious, life-saving meals for starving children and malnourished children and their families in developing countries and the United States. The goal of the organization is for its meals to provide a stable nutritional base from which recipient families can move their families from starvation to self-sufficiency. Kids Against Hunger accomplishes this by mobilizing the energy and caring of American children, teens, and adults on behalf of hungry children around the world. Kids Against Hunger seeks to end the literal hunger of children receiving the meals, but also satisfies a hunger among prosperous Americans - a hunger for meaning and contribution.
Fulfilling Kids Against Hunger's mission requires a vast food packaging capacity to meet an endless demand for food. Because physical constraints of the International Headquarters facility initially prevented further growth in production, the organization began expanding its operations by setting up food packaging "satellites". Kids Against Hunger believes that the best way to engage the largest number of people is through a decentralized, locally-based network of food packaging satellites that are active in their community. This model engages and empowers people to realize they can make a difference in solving the worldwide problem of starvation and establishes relationships with organizations such as Kiwanis, Rotary, and many faith-based groups of widely varying denominations. This growth strategy also allows the organization to continuously expand its food packaging capacity and volunteer involvement.
The process of establishing a meal packaging satellite is easy. Individuals and groups who are passionate about feeding children license the Kids Against Hunger name, food formulation, and packaging process. This agreement governs product content and quality, as well as adherence to best practices. Each satellite is a separate 501(c)(3) nonprofit corporation, and all of them are using volunteers in the same manual process to package the standardized food formulation for distribution to dozens of countries all over the globe.
It is Kids Against Hunger's goal to develop this food packaging network, over the next ten years, with a two-tiered approach of local packaging satellites and regional divisions. The organization seeks to set up 50 divisions and 500 packaging satellites across the USA. Through this structure, Kids Against Hunger expects to generate the capacity to produce over one billion meals per year.
Since its launch, Kids Against Hunger has provided over 200 million meals for children and their families in more than 60 countries through the efforts of hundreds of thousands of volunteers.
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