Would you be willing to volunteer 2 hours of your time to feed starving children?
If you are interested in volunteering, please email our coordinator at volunteer@feedkidskc.org and include your name, email address, packing shift (see below) you want to work and number of people in your group. Our coordinator will reply to confirm that the timeslot you've chosen is available.
July 23-24th 250,000 Meal Event Specs
- 8 packaging cells
- 1000 total volunteers
- 250,000 meals
Children are encouraged to participate! Childcare is not provided during the event for children not participating. When scheduling children or youth groups, follow the student-to-adult ratios below:
Ages 5 to 6: 1 child to 1 adult
1-2 grade: 2 children to 1 adult
3-6 grade: 3 students to 1 adult
7-9 grade: 4 students to 1 adult
10-12 grade: 5 students to 1 adult
About the Food
From its beginnings, Feed My Starving Children (FMSC) has worked to develop a food mixture that would be easy and safe to transport, simple to make with only boiling water, and culturally acceptable worldwide.
With the input of scientists from major food companies in the Twin Cities area—including Cargill and General Mills—FMSC developed a formula consisting of:
1. Rice, the most widely accepted grain around the world.
2. Extruded soy nuggets, providing maximum protein at lowest cost.
3. Vitamins, minerals and a vegetarian chicken flavoring to give growing children the critical nutritional elements they need.
4. Dehydrated vegetables for flavor and nutrition.
Packaged in small pouches—each of which provides six highly nutritious meals—this easy-to-prepare food blend has won rave reviews all over the world. While the formula was designed to save the lives of severely malnourished and starving children, the ingredients also improve the health, growth and physical well-being of children who are no longer in immediate danger of starvation. A team of food scientists continues to monitor the FMSC formula to ensure that it meets nutritional needs for the world’s hungry children.
A single bag of food—which provides meals for six children—costs around $1 to produce, and 94 percent of all donations to FMSC goes directly toward the food program.
