Location: Aurora offices of "Feed My Starving Children"
Menu: 380-400 grams Rice, powdered chicken, powdered soy beans, dried vegetables
Music: rockin' motivational tunes
Guests: 94 adult and children volunteers, brought together by the Batavia Chamber of Commerce Women in Business.
Our three grandkids joined us early saturday morning for two hours of volunteer work at "Feed My Starving Children." This is the kind of volunteer work you should do before breakfast when you think you are hungry. Then watch their video of malnurished children in 3rd world countries. Talk about putting hunger in perspective!! For each "meal" we filled a small plastic bag with powdered chicken, freeze-dried vegetables, powdered soy beans and rice - in that order, not less than 380 nor more than 400 grams per bag.
We worked in teams consisting of fillers, baggers, weighers, sealers and boxers. Every time a team completed a box they shouted their "slogan" to announce another box was ready for the warehouse. I am proud to say our team was the loudest shouting "bon appetite" with every completed carton.
Shouts rang out 119 times as the 94 volunteers worked their way feverishly to the beat of rock music through more than 4,000 completed meals, in 2 hours.
All the meals we prepared are now on their way to Haiti. "Feed My Starving Children" serves many 3rd world country. If you'd like to find out more, visist http://www.fmsc.org/. It is a small but amazing organization.
After that experience, the five of us went out to IHOP and probably ate enough to feed a starving child in Haiti for a month
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