Feed My Starving Children

Last weekend Lee and I volunteered for Feed My Starving Children, an organization that supplies food for school-age children throughout impoverished areas of Africa. After a long introduction we were ushered into the staging area for a rundown of what to do and then everyone started working assembly-line style. We added rice, vegetarian chicken flavoring, soy and dried veggies to a bag that would eventually be used to make lunch for 6 children. The cost of this bag was $1.02 or 17 cents per child. The work was not very hard and I would think it would be pretty easy to automate. It occurred to us after the fact that it was actually a marketing event shrouded by altruism to drum up donations. Pretty good idea if you ask me. You are asking people that are obviously more giving by nature and they really weren't asking for a lot. It never fully sinks in that $42 could be enough to feed someone on the other side of the world for a year.

Tonight we begin packing. We close next week, so we are kind of going to be living out of boxes for the next several weeks. Very exciting, somewhat stressful times. The cats, in particular, are excited about all the new boxes to sit on.