Military and families help starving children on D-Day anniversary

To commemorate D-Day, Army, Navy and Marines and their families participated yesterday in a packing session at Feed My Starving Children, a hunger relief organization that sends volunteer-packed, nutritious meals to more than 70 countries.

Nearly 90 volunteers packed 163 boxes, or 35,208 meals feeding 87 children for a year at the Libertyville packing site. FMSC maintains other facilities in Schaumburg and Libertyville. 

“It’s special that we had military personnel and their families packing for starving children on D-Day,” said John Schmelzel, Libertyville site supervisor for Feed My Starving Children.

The effort was coordinated by Kelcey Liverpool, co-founder and president of Kids Rank, an organization that empowers military children to connect, lead and serve.  

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 163 million meals, maintained its eighth consecutive four-star rating from Charity Navigator and spent more than 92% of total donations directly on feeding the hungry.

To volunteer, visit fmsc.org/volunteer.