Final news release from Jamestown Kiwanis Club..

They gathered from across the region: Steele, Devils Lake, Medina, Marion, Jamestown, waking with the dawn and in some cases, driving an hour to arrive for the 9 a.m. shift. Dozens made the early-morning sacrifice that Saturday, March 2. And of them, many hardly meet the age-requirement to operate a car. Photos below  by CSi photographer Matt Sheppard.    More at The Replay Channel at FACEBOOK.

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After surpassing its goal and raising $30,000, Jamestown Kiwanis and about 400 volunteers packaged 140,000 meals to feed starving people locally and abroad. They did it as part of Jamestown’s third Kids Against Hunger project. Compared to prior meal-packaging events, organizers said many of volunteers consisted of the area’s youth.

“We helped out because these kids are in need and we wanted to do what we could for them,” said Katrina Wiest, who helps coach the Jamestown High School Girls Hockey team. She and about a dozen student athletes and their friends helped with Kids Against Hunger set up.

Kids Against Hunger is a humanitarian food-aid organization that seeks to significantly reduce the number of hungry children in the USA and to feed starving children throughout the world. Meal recipients need only to add water and boil the dried ingredients for 20 minutes. Meals are distributed internationally as well as locally.

A child dies from hunger-related causes every six seconds, but to feed them requires so little. Each Kids Against Hunger meal serving costs 23 cents.

Kiwanis, an organization dedicated to improving quality of life for children and communities, originally hoped to match a $10,000 donation from an anonymous giver. Thanks to the generosity of a second anonymous donor, Kiwanis received another $10,000 gift. Jamestown and the surrounding communities also raised $10,000, generating $30,000 total.

At its prior events, Jamestown raised $23,000 for Kids Against Hunger in April 2011, packaging 100,000 meals. It again raised $25,000 in October 2011, matching a $25,000 gift from the anonymous donor.　

For more information about Jamestown’s Kids Against Hunger event or to donate to the cause, visit

www.Facebook.com/JamestownKiwanis or email JamestownKiwanis@gmail.com.

Reported previously…. 

Jamestown, ND (KCSi-T.V. News Mar 2, 2013) — The Jamestown Kiwanis Club and Kids Against Hunger, thank everyone who came out to help package meals on Saturday, March 2, 2013 at the Buffalo Mall. Kiwanis officials said the event went better than they could have imagined.

400 volunteers package 140,000 meal bags, consisting of white rice, crushed soy, dehydrated nix vegetables blend, and a vitamin and mineral powder blend. It said the community came together with a common cause – to help feed starving children and to save lives.   

Earlier reported:

Jamestown, ND (KCSi-T.V. News) — Jamestown Kiwanis still needs about 100 volunteers to help with the Kids Against Hunger meal-packaging event set for Saturday March 2, 2013..

After surpassing its goal and raising $30,000, Kiwanis plans to package about 130,000 meals.

Kids Against Hunger is a humanitarian food-aid organization which seeks to reduce the number of hungry children in the USA and to feed starving children throughout the world.

Volunteers, from ages 8 to 80, are asked to help scoop ingredients and weigh and seal the bags.

At prior events, volunteers attended in groups from churches, schools, service clubs and families including but not limited to Litchville-Marion, Medina and Steele youth groups, church groups from St. Paul’s United Methodist, Atonement Lutheran, Church of Latter Day Saints, Immanuel Lutheran and St. James Basilica as well as sports teams from Jamestown College.

 

Those willing to volunteer are asked to meet at Buffalo Mall’s Sears Entrance at one of two shifts of March 2. The first shift lasts from 9 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. The second shift lasts from 1 p.m. to 3:30 p.m. Volunteers, whether as indiiduals or groups, are asked to sign up in advance by calling 701-253-5109 or emailing

jamestownkiwanis@gmail.com.

Jamestown raised $23,000 for its first Kids Against Hunger event in April 2011, packaging 100,000 meals. It again raised $25,000 in October 2011, matching a $25,000 gift from the anonymous donor.