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We had a very good year at the South Minneapolis and Bloomington satellites:
South Minneapolis saw 2,300 volunteers come to pack over 530,000 meals!
Bloomington had 3,000 volunteers and packed one million meals!
560 runners participated in the inaugural Fill Their Plate Run and raised enough money to pack 150,000 meals at our South Minneapolis summer packathon!
We want [...]
Thank you to all the participated at our 125,000 Meals Pack-a-Thon on July 31st. It was a tremendous success as we packed a total of 150,984 meals—25,000 more than our goal! During the Pack-a-Thon, our South Minneapolis satellite also surpassed the 1,000,000th meal packed since starting up in the Spring of 2008! It has [...]
The Kids Against Hunger – Fill Their Plate Run was a great success! We were so encouraged with the participation of 560 runners and walkers in the 10K and 5K events, with another 89 kids running in the ¼ mile and ½ mile events! When we planned this, we figured it would take a [...]
We have enough food to send a container (280,000 meals) to Haiti! See some pics of the food getting loaded.
Chad Oltman, who oversees the South Minneapolis satellite, just got back from a week in Haiti. He wanted to share some updates:
First, check out this post and this one from Lifeline Haiti. They have been distributing KAH food to people who badly need it.
And see the video below for an interview with Bob—you can see [...]
Thanks to the outpouring of your donations, both of money and time, we have seen some amazing things happen at our two satellites:
Over 800 volunteers at the Bloomginton satellite packed 293,000 meals over two Saturdays.
On March 6, Hosanna Lutheran Church in Lakeville brought almost 400 people to pack 104,000 meals at South Minneapolis.
During South Minneapolis’ [...]
With 99 signups at South Minneapolis and 271 for the Bloomington Packathon since Wednesday, we thought the time was right to provide more opportunities for you to help Haiti. So we've decided to make a big push and try to pack 40,000 meals in a week! To do that we've opened four more sessions:
Monday, January [...]
Wow—at this point we have had 240 people sign up to pack food in the last two days! We are very grateful for everybody who is coming together to help the nation of Haiti during this crisis.
To provide additional opportunities to pack, we have expanded all of our packing sessions to 4 packing lines, so [...]
Leann Pye with Joy in Hope and Bob Davisson with Lifeline Haiti have both posted updates with the latest news from their orphanages and schools. So far the buildings and people are mostly OK–Leann mentioned one of their boys has a banged-up foot and there are some cracks in their house. Still, they are very, [...]
(image from Startribune.com)
You have probably heard about the devastating earthquake hit Haiti yesterday. We’re slowly getting news, but it’s clear that this disaster is even worse than the hurricanes that hit the country in 2008. It is estimated that up to 3 million people are now in need of emergency relief.
Kids Against Hunger and its [...]