Imagine dozens of volunteers from youth groups, churches, clubs and individuals willing to don a shower cap, join an assembly line and spend a few hours packaging soy, rice. vegetables and vitamin/mineral casseroles. Their mission? To assemble highly nutritious, life-saving meals for starving and malnourished children and their families in developing countries and the United States. Since their founding, they have packed more than 3 millions meals!

How did the Hastings Community Foundation help?

The Hastings Community Foundation grant we received made it possible for us to purchase much needed tables and shelving that helped us expand our operation so we could increase the number of meals packaged. Thanks to the Hastings Community Foundation we are now able to provide meals for even more hungry and starving people.

– Jeanne Hastings, Program Coordinator