Volunteers Needed for Feed My Starving Children Libertyville Packing Site This Fall

Feed My Starving Children (FMSC) announced today that it needs many volunteers on a steady basis this fall at the Libertyville packing site to meet promised meal shipments to 70 countries around the world. The site, located at 742 E. Park Ave., opened late last year.

Volunteers fill bags with nutritious, dry meals called “MannaPacks,” designed for malnourished children. It's a fun activity for families, churches, sports teams, companies and civic organizations, who learn about hunger, then work together in an energetic atmosphere to produce meals. Volunteers can check on hours for the Libertyville packing site --and for the other area sites in Schaumburg and Aurora -- and register for a two-hour packing shift at fmsc.org/volunteer. 

“We make an annual meal commitment to the developing communities we serve, so we need to keep the boxes filling up and going out on schedule,” said Mark Crea, CEO/Executive Director of FMSC.  "Please join us to turn hunger into hope with your own two hands.”

Feed My Starving Children donates the food to missions and humanitarian organizations in developing communities. Those organizations plan on having a steady food supply to operate orphanages, schools, clinics, and feeding programs serving the desperately poor. Leading economists say nutrition is the beginning of all other economic progress.

“In one shift, a typical volunteer packs 216 meals for undernourished kids,” says Crea. “It leaves you with a huge sense of accomplishment that you’re changing the future for children who have no other hope.”

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.

Volunteer online at fmsc.org/volunteer.