JAMESTOWN, N.D. (Valley News Live) — The flood fight continues in Jamestown as some people are scrambling even to make it across town. Some families are having a hard time getting the essentials of food. On Saturday, a local organization made nearly $63,000 meals to make sure no one goes hungry.

“We added the beans, and then we added the vegetables,” said Kiwanis member Rilie Wolf.  Rilie has an exciting job for being 9-years-old.

“To me, it’s heartbreaking,” said Rilie. “We have so much, and they have so little.”

She’s helping out her neighbors in Jamestown.

“I know people that are flooded,” said Rilie. “My classmates are flooded.“

“It’s been ten years since we’ve had a flood like this, which is not that long of a time,” said Kiwanis member Katie Ryan-Anderson.

Rilie and Katie are both apart of Kiwanis and making meals for families that need it.

They tell me they donate these meals across the state, including Moorhead, but Jamestown, in particular, needs your help more than ever.

Each meal is a quarter, and one of them can feed six people.

 “I live out of town, and when I drive to work, I see the corn in the field and the soybeans in the field and I just know that that’s someone annual salary and if I didn’t have my annual salary, how would I feed my family?” said Katie.

The meals are simple to make.

“All they have to do is add it to boiling water, so even if you’re Rilie’s age, you can assemble this meal,” said Katie.

“I wish that everybody could have something like food and money,” said Rilie.

In total, the organization has packed 1.3 million meals for families in their eight years.

Find out more on The Jamestown Kiwanis Facebook page

Previously..

Jamestown  (CSi)  The Kiwanis Club & 250 volunteers are packaging 64,000 meals to benefit the Great Plains Food Bank.

Jamestown Kiwanis Club President CJ Hager, says  “Kiwanis Against Hunger allows us to fill those tiny tummies – and it only costs 25 cents per meal.”

The location is Stutsman Harley Davidson, in Jamestown, from 9 a.m. to noon, Saturday, Oct. 26

Nearly one out of seven North Dakota families is food insecure. The Great Plains Food Bank served 97,000 individuals last year alone. Last year’s KAH meals were gone of the shelves within a couple of weeks. Meals cost 25 cents and stay within North Dakota and Clay County, Minn. The club raised $16,000 to pack 64,000 meals. In its eight years of packing meals, Jamestown Kiwanis has raised $276,000 and packed 1.2 million meals.