LITTLE CHUTE, Wis. (WFRV) – More than 700 volunteers from St. John Nepomucene Catholic Community and Holy Spirit Parish are spending the weekend hand-packing meals to help fight global hunger, and they’re close to reaching a major milestone.
The two-day MobilePack event, held in partnership with nonprofit Feed My Starving Children (FMSC), aims to pack 147,744 meals by the time volunteers finish Saturday, December 6. In the last several years of hosting the event, volunteers are expected to pack their one-millionth meal sometime during this year’s effort.
“They will actually hit their one millionth meal packed in the last seven times that they’ve been here packing over the years, and that will occur either tonight or tomorrow,” said Laura Ribano, Assistant Mobile Manufacturing Manager with FMSC.
The event runs Friday and Saturday at 328 Grand Avenue in Little Chute, where volunteers of all ages scoop, weigh and seal nutritional meal kits designed to be shipped to food-insecure communities around the world.
Organizers say the packing is only part of the mission. Community members can also support the project by donating, as each meal costs money to produce and ship. Those interested in helping can visit give.fmsc.org/littlechute or stjn.org/feedmystarvingchildren.
Feed My Starving Children is a Christian nonprofit that ships food to more than 100 countries and partners with organizations on the ground to move communities from short-term relief toward long-term sustainability. Since its founding in 1987, FMSC has shipped more than 3 billion meals worldwide.
Volunteers will return Saturday to continue packing and to push toward the event’s total goal of 145,000 to147,744 meals in just 48 hours.
