Turn Hunger into Hope at Feed My Starving Children

Christian hunger relief organization Feed My Starving Children (FMSC) now offers meal-packing sessions at three Chicago-area sites: Aurora, Schaumburg and Libertyville.

Feed My Starving Children produces nutritious meals designed to restore malnourished children to full health. Volunteers hand-pack the meals, which are then shipped to missions and humanitarian agencies working in 50 countries around the world.

Each meal costs 22 cents to produce and 92% of all donations directly support the food program. All meals are packed by volunteers, who, along with donors, pay for 100% of FMSC meals. FMSC receives no government aid.

The two-hour packing sessions are a fun and easy activity for church groups, corporations, families, civic organizations, scouts, school clubs, sports teams and senior organizations. Volunteer groups can sign up online for packing sessions at fmsc.org/volunteer

Since 2008, Chicagoland volunteers at packing sites in Schaumburg and Aurora have packed more than 80 million meals. They were distributed to hungry families in Haiti, Kenya, Nicaragua, Swaziland and many other developing nations.

The Libertyville, Ill. facility, which opened in November, will enable more than 100,000 area volunteers to pack more than 30 million meals annually for malnourished children around the world.