Feed My Starving Children

When our high school youth have gone to a youth gathering in the Chicago area called Construction Zone we had the opportunity to help package meals for an organization called Feed My Starving Children. They are based out of Minnesota but are opening up a facility in the Chicagoland area in Aurora and will start packaging meals at an offsite location on December 15th. I have been tremendously impressed with this organization from the times we've worked with them. Here's what really impressive. I copied this right off the Feed My Starving Children website.

About Our Food:
From its beginnings, Feed My Starving Children 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:

• Rice, the most widely accepted grain around the world.
  
• Extruded soy nuggets, providing maximum protein at lowest cost.
  
• Vitamins, minerals and a vegetarian chicken flavoring to give growing children the critical nutritional elements they need.
  
• 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 $.90 to produce, and 94 percent of all contributions to Feed My Starving Children go directly toward the cost of the food program.

That statement about six meals costing only $.90 I think is amazing. For just a little bit of money, you can help children get the food they need as an act of mercy to those who desperately need it. You can find more information or find information about giving to this wonderful organization at www.fmsc.org. Stay tuned as we plan on take from St. Paul's up to Aurora to help package meals.