http://filltheirplate.org Feeding families around the world...and around the corner. Tue, 09 Mar 2010 03:57:04 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en 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 ... http://filltheirplate.org/2010-the-first-nine-weeks/ 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 ... http://filltheirplate.org/new-sessions-opened/ 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 ... http://filltheirplate.org/packing-session-update/ 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 ... http://filltheirplate.org/latest-earthquake-news/ (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 ... http://filltheirplate.org/the-haiti-earthquake-how-you-can-help/ The World Food Programme has a great new video calling for one billion people online to help the one billion people who are hungry. Watch it below, then share it on Facebook or Twitter! http://filltheirplate.org/a-billion-for-a-billion/ Posted via email from filltheirplate's posterous http://filltheirplate.org/a-great-pictorial-on-hunger-in-haiti-courtesy-of-the-bbc-httpj-mp53qubm/ Posted via email from filltheirplate's posterous http://filltheirplate.org/the-first-session-is-underway-3000-meals-packed-so-far-packathon-fb/ Posted via email from filltheirplate's posterous http://filltheirplate.org/the-thanksgiving-packathon-is-today-stay-tuned-here-for-updates-packathon2009/ Thanks to everyone for their patience with our Web site. Two weeks before the Packathon is a hard time for our server to crash. But we are back up and running on the site! We have our volunteer and about pages up, and we'll have more up shortly. In addition, we ... http://filltheirplate.org/and-were-back-mostly/