"Feeding God's Starving Children Hungry in Body and Spirit" Feed My Starving Children (FMSC) is a Christian organization that has been around since 1987, their goal is to provide meals to malnourished children, the meals are hand-packed by volunteers, the meals are then shipped to orphanages, schools, etc. all around the world to feed children. FMSC has serviced nearly 70 countries around the world. At FMSC, 92% of donations are spent directly on the food. Also because of how dangerous some countries are, it is shocking yet amazing that FMSC can say that approximately 99.6% of the packaged food arrives at the intended location. An individual meal costs 22 cents (FMSC 2015).
As I have volunteered through FMSC on multiple occasions, this past experience took place on April 21st, from 12-2. It was located at their Aurora, IL location. The address is: 555 Exchange Ct. Aurora, IL 60504. This time I went with Mary Kleinman, who is in our CWII class. We had planned to go together. Anyone can volunteer their time by going online and signing up, so there was nearly 40-50 people there with us volunteering.
While you are there, the majority of volunteers are used to hand-pack the meals. In groups of 6 or more you get all of the individual ingredients into the bag, where it then goes to the sealer to make sure the bag is the correct weight and gets properly sealed. It functions in an assembly line format. Because you are in those groups for nearly 2 hours, you get to talk to everyone there and get to know them. They also play music to help lighten the mood so everyone has a good time. Me and Mary were talking and laughing the whole time, and getting to know the other students who were there doing community service.
The other students that we were talking to were talking the most. We started off just by saying hello, then started learning more about each other and what schools we went to and just proceeded the whole two hours conducting small talk. At the end of the two hours, you clean up your station and head home.
I learned that for just two hours we packed 100 boxes, which is enough food for hundreds of starving children. It was truly eye opening to know that in that little amount of time you could impact someone's life so positively. I really enjoy going to FMSC, every time I have gone I have had a positive enlightening experience. I would recommend FMSC to anyone who wants to do community service. Everything is simple and quick, you sign up online, show up, SAVE LIVES, then continue on with your day. HIGHLY RECOMMEND(:
"About FMSC | Fmsc.org." About FMSC | Fmsc.org. 1 Jan. 2015. Web. 26 Apr. 2015. <http://www.fmsc.org/about>.
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