Feed My Starving Children Offers Sunday Meal-Packing Sessions in Schaumburg Pilot Program

Hunger Charity Works to Accommodate Growing Volunteer Group Requests

Schaumburg, Ill., August 20, 2012 --To accommodate increasing requests from volunteer groups, Christian hunger relief organization Feed My Starving Children (FMSC) is offering special Sunday meal-packing sessions at the Schaumburg, Illinois facility at 1072 National Parkway. The sessions will be held on Sept. 16, Oct. 21, Nov. 18 and Dec. 16 from 1-3 pm, and are offered to groups willing to donate a required $50 per person.

Feed My Starving Children produces nutritious meals designed to restore malnourished children to full health. Volunteers hand-pack the meals, and they’re shipped to missions and humanitarian agencies working in 70 countries around the world.

“Many Chicago-area groups have expressed a desire to pack on a Sunday afternoon as a ministry to the poor or an extension of their worship service,” says CEO/Executive Director Mark Crea. “These Fully Invested Sunday sessions piloting in Schaumburg will accommodate a total of 400 people to pack on a semi-private basis with their church or family group, for a required donation of $50 per volunteer.”

The $50 donation funds a box of 216 nutritious meals that will feed malnourished children. Each meal costs 22 cents to produce and 93% 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.

Volunteer groups can sign up for the Sunday packing sessions at fmsc.org/fullyinvested. All other weekday and Saturday shifts at the Schaumburg facility will continue to be offered on a no-obligation basis; however, FMSC urges all volunteers to help fund the meals they pack with a voluntary donation.

If successful, the pilot program may be offered at other FMSC packing locations, including Aurora, Ill. and the new under-construction site in Libertyville, Ill., as well as Eagan, Chanhassen and Coon Rapids, Minn. and Tempe, Ariz.

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 new 18,000 square-foot Libertyville, Ill. facility is scheduled to open in November and will enable more than 100,000 area volunteers to pack more than 30 million meals annually for malnourished children around the world.

To donate and join the Chicago campaign visit www.fmsc.org/changetheworldchicago

A Christian non-profit founded in 1987, Feed My Starving Children tackles world hunger by sending volunteer-packed, nutritious meals to nearly 70 countries, where they're used to operate orphanages, schools, clinics and other building blocks of healthy communities. Last year FMSC produced 133 million meals, maintained its seventh consecutive four-star rating from Charity Navigator and spent 93% of total donations directly on feeding the hungry.