– Kids Against Hunger package 212,000 meals!

Jamestown (CSi) The Jamestown Kiwanis Club’s “Kids Against Hunger,” is in the fifth year, with food to be distributed locally and around the world. Kiwanis called for volunteers to help package 200,000 meals – and 212,000 total meals were packaged, a new record.

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There were close to 300 volunteers, on Saturday at Stutsman Harley Davidson, for the morning session, packing 116,000 meals, and in the afternoon, 220 volunteers.

Kids Against Hunger packages and sends meals consisting of vegetables, vitamins, rice and soy for starving children in the U.S. and abroad. Meal recipients need only to add water and boil the dried ingredients for 20 minutes. Meals are distributed internationally as well as locally through Great Plains Food Bank.

The club was able to reach their $50,000 goal thanks to donations and an anonymous donor. The funds raised purchased the ingredients needed to package the meals. The international meals will be sent to Africa for the holiday season.

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The two shifts are: 9 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. and 1 p.m. to 3:30 p.m. At prior events, volunteers attended in groups from churches, schools, service clubs and families including but not limited to Litchville-Marion, Devils Lake, 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 the University of Jamestown.

For more information about Jamestown’s Kids Against Hunger event, to donate to the cause or to volunteer email JamestownKiwanis@gmail.com,

or go to the Jamestown Kids Against Hunger Facebook page