They came from all walks of US life – Girl Scouts troops, National Guard units, financial planning offices – to spend three days packing food for thousands of hungry children they will never meet.
Two Million Meals, the brainchild of a Detroit-area pastor, resulted in 8,810 volunteers putting together 2.02 million meals to be shipped to El Salvador, Haiti and the Philippines.
The mixtures of rice, soy, dehydrated vegetables and 21 vitamins and minerals will provide one meal a day for a year to 5,560 children.
(READ the AP story from the Morning Post)