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[et_pb_section][et_pb_row][et_pb_column type=”4_4″][et_pb_text admin_label=”Text” background_layout=”light” text_orientation=”left” use_border_color=”off” border_color=”#ffffff” border_style=”solid”] Over 150 volunteers from the community gathered at the Queen of Apostles Social Hall to package 30,0000 Outreach, Inc. meals destined for Moshi, Tanzania.  Churches in the parish included Queen of Apostles, Holy Family and Our Lady of Carter Lake.  These meals will be included with Outreach…

The Waupun FFA Chapter of Waupun, WI hosted their first Outreach, Inc. meal packaging event on Friday, March 20, and named it, “Waupun FFA – Feeding Our Neighbors!” They hosted this meal packaging event as part of their National FFA Ag Week programs. Approximately 150 faculty, students and staff packaged 20,000 Mac & Cheese meals…

The Rotary Club of West Palm Beach, Racing to the Rescue, The Palm Beach County Food Bank and over 400 community volunteers gathered at Gaines Park on Saturday, March 28, 2015 to package 100,000 Outreach, Inc. Rice and Bean meals to feed the needy. “With one in six children in Palm Beach County at risk…

For the 5th year in a row, volunteers from St. Mary’s Catholic Church of Marshalltown, Iowa gathered to package 12,000 Outreach Rice and Bean meals. Those meals are part of a larger shipment of meals that are being packaged throughout the Catholic Diocese of Des Moines to support their work in the Kilimanjaro Mission of Hope and…

The United Way of Williams County in Bryan, Ohio, held their 2nd Annual Feeding Williams County meal packaging event with Outreach. Over 250 volunteers arrived at the Bryan Middle School to package 42,000 Mac & Cheese meals and 28,000 Rice and Bean meals.  The food will be distributed by United Way to various agencies to…

For the 9th year in a row, Waldorf College in Forest City, IA packaged Outreach meals to feed the hungry on Wednesday, March 4. This year’s event drew 447 volunteer meal packagers from the college and the community.  Their event was appropriately titled Stop Hunger. Start Hope. Participants at this year’s event packaged a total…

Kansas college and university students gathered in Wichita, Kansas on March 1stfor the 5th Annual Kansas Hunger Dialogue (KHD) and packaged 10,000 Mac & Cheese meals for local distribution.  This event, sponsored by Volunteer Kansas, was coordinated by Outreach’s Regional Manager in Kansas, Isaac McNary. The KHD brings together students, faculty, and administrators from across…

The FFA of Belle Plaine High School in Iowa, hosted a 20,000 meal packaging event at their school in celebration of National FFA Week. On February 27, over 225 students, faculty, and administrators donned hairnets and aprons then lined up around packaging lines to package meals to be distributed by the local food bank for…

Over 400 volunteers recently gathered at Westwood Lutheran Church in St. Louis Park, Minnesota to package another 100,000 Rice and Soy meals for distribution through Westwood’s sister church in Tanzania.   They have been hosting an annual packaging for 10 years and this event crested the 1.2 million meals. “These meals go to the Arusha…