Are you looking for a fun activity
for this Saturday? Come join Carolina Mountain Sales this Saturday as we pack
meals for Kids Against Hunger. Group size is limited to 18 to 25
children/adults, so please let us if you would like to join us and what time.
Packaging occurs on the lower level of Mission Children's Hospital's Reuter
Children's Outpatient Building at 11 Vanderbilt Park Drive in Asheville, NC.
We will be packing from 9:30-12:00 on February 11, 2011. If you are not available to pack meals, but would like to donate to Kids Against Hunger, please drop a check off at our office written to Kids Against Hunger prior to February 10th, at Carolina Mountain Sales, 1550 Hendersonville Road, Suite 210, Asheville, NC 28803
Kids Against Hunger (KAH) is a
nonprofit organization that seeks to reduce the number of starving children in
the world. Mission Children's Hospital is the only facility of its kind to have
a KAH Chapter. It is overseen by a volunteer committee that is part of Mission
Healthcare Foundation. The committee recruits youth and adult groups from
throughout Western North Carolina to package dry meals.
The packaged meals are given to
organizations that distribute them locally and worldwide to feed hungry children.
About one third of the food is sent home on weekends with local children in
need, via MANNA Food Bank's "MANNA-Pak" program. The remaining
pallets are sent to the Congo, Haiti, and Honduras through organizations such
as Samaritan's Purse and Shoulder to Shoulder.
The KAH Committee raises funds to
pay for the dry meal ingredients. We encourage volunteer groups to make a
donation of $20 per person to help pay for these ingredients. A group of 18-24
can typically package about 5,000 meals in one 2.5 hour session. At a cost of
only 25 cents per meal, supplies for one packing session cost $1,250.
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