Feed My Starving Children

Sep 4th, 2009 9:45 AM UTC
By Christopher Berg

While on vacation last week in my home state of Minnesota, my Mom, and Director of the International School of Minnesota, asked me to tag along with a group of high school students as they split into groups and set out across the Twin Cities to learn about various ways to give back to the community, both locally AND globally.

Knowing the kind of work I do at ONE, my Mom assigned me to the group that went to the Minnesota-based non-profit called Feed My Starving Children (FMSC), which works to distribute nutritious food to starving children throughout the world through missionary partnerships at orphanages, schools, clinics, refugee camps and malnourishment centers.

A group of about 20 students between grades 9-12, spent 3 hours packing bags of chicken, vegetables, soy and corn in feed bags that would be directly sent to countries like Haiti, Uganda, Nicaragua and Zimbabwe, to name a few.

Excited chants of “CHICKEN… VEGETABLES… SOY… CORN!” could be heard as each student carefully added their ingredient along the assembly line.

FMSC Team Leader, Cole Anderson, told our group before sealing the bags that, “the next people to touch this food will be the very kids who will benefit from it.” What a powerful thought!

At the end of our time, the students and teachers from our group packed a total of 15,984 meals, enough to feed 44 kids for an entire year!

The experience reminded me that there are countless ways to help fight global poverty. Whether by taking action locally with groups like FMSC, or by lobbying our government officials on behalf of the world’s poorest as members of ONE, there is a role for everyone in this great movement!

-Christopher Berg

TAGS: From ONE Members, From Our Partners