Food for Swaziland event a success
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Friday, August 27, 2010 - 11:54am
Last night, an assembly line of volunteers made 27,864 meals, for the Feed My Starving Children program, at a Massirio Drive event sponsored by Connecticut Light and Power.
Over 20 community groups from Berlin and the surrounding area are participating. More than 1,000 volunteers will come to the CL&P warehouse over the next few days to make the food packages. The goal is to prepare and pack over 270,000 meals that will be shipped to Swaziland in Africa by Saturday.
The 129 boxes assembled Thursday is enough food to feed 76 children one meal a day for a year, according to CL&P Spokesperson Mitch Gross.
Founded in 1987, Feed My Starving Children is a nonprofit organization that provides local volunteers the opportunity to work packing meals for severely malnourished children around the world.
For more on this story see the Sept. 2 edition of The Citizen.
