Meals For Haiti: Food Bagging Events

This highly nutritious, quick cooking, easy packaging food

was developed to address the problem of rampant, worldwide hunger and starvation.

The Meals for Haiti events are an exciting opportunity for your church or organization that provide a meaningful project for all ages, and will literally feed thousands more hungry Haitian children through Lifeline and other mission organizations in Haiti.  Lifeline’s desire is to provide the bagging opportunity to those who would like to have a “hands on” impact on the hunger in Haiti.  A full 40-foot container of meals is 1200 boxes containing close to 300,000 meals!

Volunteers in Iowa package 2+ million meals to ship to Lifeline in Haiti.  Watch their story.

Bagging Event Details:

• All ages are welcome to bag...a great project for families, individuals, youth groups, churches, scouts, senior citizen groups, etc.

• Participants will measure, bag, weigh, seal, box and put the boxes on pallets and then onto the 40-foot container to be shipped to Haiti.  Lifeline uses and shares the meals with 40+ other missions who are approved recipients.

• An entire 40-foot container is 1200 boxes or 300,000 meals.

• We ask for a tax-deductible donation for each 2 hours of bagging.  Like a jog-a-thon or race, participants may get sponsors.  This is a fund raising project to raise the money for the food, supplies and shipping.

Bagging events hosted by Lifeline:

• Scheduled times vary, usually with 2 hour time slots.  Typically Lifeline does NOT do an entire container at one time but offers these bagging opportunities to accommodate smaller groups, then ships the food on containers with other goods. 

• Participants will spend a 2 hour shift measuring, bagging, weighing, sealing, boxing and putting the boxes on pallets and then onto the 40 foot container to be shipped.

• Groups should plan on 3 hours total at Lifeline’s warehouse for registration, group photo, prayer, instructions, visiting the media center and light refreshments before/after the 2 hours of bagging. 

• Larger groups may schedule their own bagging session at Lifeline's warehouse.

• For more details, contact Ben@Lifeline.org or Greg@Lifeline.org.

Bagging events at YOUR location:

• Contact Ben@Lifeline.org for full details and costs.

• For a full container: 300,000 meals, which equates to 1000 people bagging for 2 hours each.  With a full container, all ingredients and supplies are shipped directly to the bagging site, loaded on to the container and shipped to Haiti from the site. One half of the total cost must be paid to Lifeline 30 days in advance before supplies, ingredients and container can be arranged

• Partial container: Minimum required is 45,000 meals, or 1/5 of a container, to bring equipment and ingredients on site and truck them back to Lifelines warehouse for shipping at a later date.  One-half of guaranteed amount must be raised and paid to Lifeline 30 days in advance.  Guaranteed amounts can be increased up to 2 weeks in advance of bagging event.  In the case of partial containers Lifeline will come with extra supplies and ingredients which can be bagged for an additional fee.

• Lifeline is open to scheduling smaller events at your location, however extra funds will be needed to cover transportation costs which vary by location, above the per meal costs budgeted for larger events.  Again, contact Ben@Lifeline.org to discuss the options.

Project History:

In 2005, Lifeline learned of the organization "Kids Against Hunger".  Through their generosity,  Lifeline received the first of many 40 foot containers of "Kids Food",  the  nickname we've given it in Haiti.  Toddlers and students in Lifeline’s Christian schools and nutrition programs began receiving “Kids Food” prepared daily as a hot lunch.

 

“Kids Against Hunger” (Feeding Children International):

Kids Against Hunger began as a small locally-based project of its parent organization, Feeding Children International. Through the vision of the founder, Richard Proudfit of Minnesota and others who have joined their team, a special highly nutritious, quick cooking, easy packaging  food was developed to address the problem of rampant, worldwide hunger and starvation.  “Kids Against Hunger” is a volunteer-driven effort to package and distribute food in communities worldwide. “Kids Against Hunger” believes that every person can make a difference in the fight against national and global hunger.  Kids Against Hunger not only nourishes hungry children, but the spirit of its volunteers.  Each week volunteers come together at various satellite locations to package hundreds of much-needed food servings being shipped all over the world. Visit www.feedingchildren.org for more details.

 

Meals for Haiti (Lifeline Christian Mission):

In an effort to meet the needs of thousands of undernourished and hungry kiddies in Haiti,  Lifeline has chosen to utilize our staff, volunteers, warehouse, and supporters to further the mutual goal of Lifeline and “Kids Against Hunger” to reach as many as possible in Haiti with this nutrition source. Our desire is to not only provide for the nutritional needs of those young people touched by Lifeline, but to also distribute this to to hundreds of thousands of other children through other Christian Church mission organizations based in Haiti.  We have the capability, through our “duty free” shipping privileges, our Haitian staff, loading dock, warehouses and box trucks, to distribute this great source of nutrition through these other missions, as well as expand Lifeline’s nutrition and feeding programs to even more of the Haitian children daily fed in Lifeline’s schools in Haiti. And with more food, more can be fed.