Giving Back

If you are looking for a good way to give back during Christmas time Feed my starving children is a great organization to help with kids hunger around the world. We need to do something's about world hunger before it gets even worse. In the world today we make enough food for every person to eat 2800 calories a day. Lots of countries are struggling with obesity while others barley have any food at all. World hunger has went up from 840 million people to other a billion people over the last phew years. 18 thousand children wont live to see tomorrow of the 400 million children hungry. There are many reasons to why this is happening such as political problems, famines, and natural disasters. Instead of letting this go on, feed my starving children began to help in 1987. This is a Christian organized group. There mission is to feed gods starving children hungry in body and spirit. They say if you can donate time or money that they ask you at least pray. If you do have spare time to go volunteer you can go to one of their locations to package food. You make meals of rice, soy, vegetables, and chicken flavoring in one bag which ends up feeding 6 kids. Volunteering only take two hours of your day to help and kids of all age can do it because every person makes a difference. After everything is packaged they pray before sending it off. They are shipped around the world to at least 70 countries. Since there isn't a place where you can volunteer here you can always make a donation. 25 cents is enough to feed one child's meal. Feeding 5 children for a month is only $33. You are guaranteed that 92% of donations go directly to the food program. Today they have produced over 600 million meals total. The Kennedy women's swim team goes there every year on the Minnesota trip. This past year we packaged enough food to feed 76 kids for a year! Each table for us is a team and we have a competition and it ends up actually being really fun to race and see who can pack the most bags in the two hours. You really don't even notice how long you've been there because it is fun. The little bit of time really can make a difference in the world! For more information go to http://www.fmsc.org/ about how you can help!