In a recent post, I briefly touched on a volunteer effort at our local Lentil Festival involving Feeding Children Everywhere and wanted to share with you a little more on their efforts.
Their mission states that “Feeding Children Everywhere is a social charity that empowers and mobilizes people to assemble healthy meals for hungry children.” And I would say that’s delightfully true; our local team of volunteers packed 25,386 meals in 3 hours. Talk about empowerment and mobilization! Each one of these meals includes lentils, dehydrated vegetables, pink Himalayan salt, and rice, providing an all-natural, soy-free, gluten-free, preservative-free, kosher-certified and vegan meal.
Meal pie chart via feedingchildreneverywhere.com
All of this goodness was started in 2010 by Don Campbell, a Florida resident who made a big difference on a personal level by inviting children in need to share a meal at his table. Since those days, 32 million meals have been delivered to 30 countries by 198,000 volunteers, and that impressive number continues to grow. For every dollar received, Feeding Children Everywhere packages and ships out four meals to a hungry child somewhere in the world.
child and box of meals via feedingchildreneverywhere.com
And anyone can host or join a “hunger project,” the term FCE uses to refer to any group of people coming together to stop hunger, and they make it easy to sign up right on their website. The website also provides a calendar of all the hunger projects and open events available to volunteers.
child and meal via feedingchildreneverywhere.com
Check out a few of their beautiful videos for more in-depth conversations about the impact of this program.
It is amazing how such a simple lentil meal can make a healthy and cost effective way to feed large groups of children. I love the work that this organization is doing in helping stop world hunger in children. Simple sometimes is the most delicious and effective.
Awesome!
Having travelled to over 30 nations, I have seen hunger up close and personal. This sounds like a fabulous charity with a simple solution that is affordable for easing children’s hunger worldwide.