Hundreds of volunteers worked hard in Roseville this afternoon, trying to finish a seemingly impossible task: Packing 500,000 meals to send to starving children.
Members of Valley Springs Presbyterian Church coordinated the project with the assistance of Feed My Starving Children, a Christian nonprofit organization based in Minnesota that sends food around the world.
Feed My Starving Children goes to communities that want to contribute food to hungry children, said Andrew Ulasich, a supervisor with the organization. Groups that participate are required to pack and buy the food. Feed My Starving Children helps to make sure it gets to the kids.
In the case of the Roseville effort, about 2,400 volunteers will participate from Wednesday through today. The group will need to raise $120,000 for the food.
Volunteers scooped, weighed and packed the food in plastic bags called "Manna Packs" - rice, soy protein, dehydrated vegetables, and a chicken-flavored vegetarian dish. Each packet costs 24 cents and feeds six.
The church has raised about $75,000 for the food. People interested in contributing money to the effort can do so by going to sacfmscmobilepack.org or fmsc.org (and specify Valley Springs Presbyterian Church.)
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