Originally published at National Catholic Register
This past Sunday, trucks carrying 100,000 meals headed south from Michigan to North Carolina and Florida to aid hurricane victims.
The day before departure, more than 400 volunteers streamed into the social hall at St. Isidore Catholic Church in the Michigan township of Macomb to pack the meals.
Parishioners from St. Isidore and other churches were joined by members of local Kiwanis and Key Clubs, who supported the effort with funding as well as volunteers. There were high school honor societies and dance teams wearing matching jackets. There were individuals alongside entire families and groups of friends who wanted to help others in a tangible way.
They arrived at 10 a.m. By noon, the boxes with more than 100,000 meal packets were packed and loaded onto trucks waiting outside.
Volunteers fill cups and bags with rice, vitamin-fortified crushed soy, a vitamin blend, and dehydrated vegetables at packaging stations set up in the St. Isidore social hall. The organized effort will allow those who receive the meals to simply add six cups of water to feed up to six adults or 12 children. Credit: Steven Stechschulte/Special to Detroit Catholic
St. Isidore partnered with the Kids Coalition Against Hunger and with volunteer
