FARGO (KFGO) – After 10 days of packing, and with the help of over 27,000 volunteers, Feed My Starving Children FargoPack finished their mobile packing event just shy of 10 million meals packed for hungry and starving children.
Volunteers began packing what would eventually be 9,712,224 meals on Jan. 5, a number nearly double that of the next largest FMSC mobile event ever before. The meals will be shipped around the world to feed 26,608 kids every day for one year.
As the final packing shift ended Sunday afternoon, Dave Gunnlaugsson, the Feed My Starving Children MobilePack regional development advisor for FargoPack reminded that session’s volunteers of the valuable work that was done over a week and a half, despite falling just short of their goal of 10 million meals.
“We set out on a goal to feed 27,000 people hungry in body and spirit, and that’s what was done,” Gunnlaugsson said. “While the 10 million meal goal wasn’t fully reached, the Red River Valley had over 27,000 people come out over these 10 days to help feed kids, families, and communities around the world.”
The over-9.7 million meal record wasn’t the only one broken during this year’s FargoPack event. Sunday, thousands of volunteers packed 985,176 meals – the most in a single shift. That session also saw one station of 15 people pack 85 boxes – a record for most boxes packed by a team.
Coming into this year’s event, FMSC FargoPack packed around nine million meals since the first event in 2015.
That means FargoPack and their volunteers packed more meals in 10 days on the floor of Fargodome than they did in the previous nine years combined.
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