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Help for Haiti Hosts 7th Annual Seacoast MobilePack to Feed Children in North Haiti
New Hampshire-based nonprofit packs over 130,000 meals to feed Haitian children for the entire 2017-2018 school year.
Rye Beach, NH – Help for Haiti, a New Hampshire-based nonprofit whose mission is to feed, educate and employ communities in north Haiti, hosted its 7th Annual Feed My Starving Children (FMSC) MobilePack™ on Saturday, May 20, at Seacoast Helicopters in Portsmouth, NH.
The daylong food-packing event brought together over 600 volunteers to hand-package over 130,000 FMSC MannaPack™ meals, which are specially formulated to provide protein, carbohydrates, vitamins and minerals to severely malnourished children. These meals are now en route to north Haiti, where they will feed 500 children in two schools throughout the 2017-2018 school year.
Over the last seven years, Help for Haiti has provided nearly 1.4 million meals to impoverished children in Haiti. Jim Willey, Help for Haiti founder and president, said, “We could not fulfill our mission without the 600 volunteers that join us at the foodpack, year after year. By donating their time and energy for just a few short hours, they are guaranteeing that every child we support in Haiti will be provided a hot meal - every day - for an entire school year. For this, we are incredibly grateful.”
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This year’s volunteers also provided generous donations to help pay for the meals and their transport to Haiti, which costs roughly 30 cents per meal. To learn more or donate to the cause, visit www.helpforhaiti.com.
About Help for Haiti
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Jim Willey founded Help for Haiti in 2010 in response to the historic earthquake that devastated the country. A 501c3 charity, Help for Haiti is a Christian organization created specifically to feed and educate 500 children in the northeast area of Haiti while working with locals to build businesses and create job opportunities for future generations of educated, employable young adults. Help for Haiti utilizes strategic partnerships with organizations that are designed to either feed, educate or employ impoverished communities in the poorest country in the Western Hemisphere. In the last six years, Help for Haiti has provided over 1 million hot meals to 500 school children in its two schools, which is critical to the children’s education.
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