East Lake Academy Hosts Volunteer Effort to Assist Starving Children

Hundreds of Lake County volunteers will pack 100,000 life-saving meals for developing-world children March 12 at in Lake Forest. 

A collaboration between . of Lake Bluff, East Lake Academy and Feed My Starving Children will help ease famine.

Organizers are seeking volunteer individuals and groups from communities, churches, scouts and other bodies for two-hour shifts. After 15-minutes of training, they’ll place fortified soy, rice and vegetable meals into thousands of zip-lock packages. Packages will fill cartons, cartons will be sealed and palletized, and everything readied for shipment to Asia, Africa or Latin America.

Volunteers are needed for shifts beginning 8 a.m., 10:30 a.m., 1 p. m. and 3:30 p.m. The site is East Lake Academy, 13911 W. Laurel Drive, in Lake Forest. To volunteer or donate, visit www.fmsc.org, click on “Mobile Pack” “Mobile Pack Events,” scroll to “Illinois” and “Lindemann/East Lake Academy” and follow directions.

Feed My Starving Children is a non-profit Christian organization committed to nourishing desperately-hungry children in 70 countries. Founded in 1987, they supply 126 million meals per year to orphanages, clinics, schools and feeding programs from permanent U.S. sites and from mobile sites staffed by 300,000 volunteers.