Feed My Starving Children Research Paper

A. How many of you are worried about where your next meal will come from? Are you unsure of how you’re going to purchase next week’s groceries or what you will be feeding your children for dinner tonight? This probably isn’t something most of you think about from day to day. When you are hungry, you eat. It’s easy for you to grab a sandwich, order a pizza, or run through the drive thru when you are on the go. However, there are many families, not just in other countries, but here in the United States as well, that are going hungry every day. According to kidshealth.org, a child dies from malnutrition and related causes every 6 seconds.

Around the globe there are many who are at a state of no access to food. Not only does this effect the homeless, but also those with a family and children. Because of their low income or environmental state and even poverty, not everyone has a fair chance of a proper nutrition. This is where the role of food banks comes into place as it limits these problems to these individuals. Through charitable events at school, I have participated in giving canned food items or food items that will not rot within a couple of years or months. Participating in these events not only gave me a ticket to partake in the well-being for others, but it also gave me a more understanding as to how many people are really impacted with hunger as well as other forms of their needs.

Have you ever thought about what it is like to be constantly hungry as a result of not having access to adequate food? For some people in the world this is a reality. In my interview with Melinda Vonderhorst she recounts her personal observations from her five trips to Haiti, where she helped to build a school along with working in an orphanage and clinic, of countless children

everyday, you are probably wondering why nationwide hunger is an issue. Families that are subject to poverty generally have little money, goods, and don’t often have much support. Economic income does determine if a child is more likely to go hungry or not. Right here in the Central Valley and Imperial County have the highest percentage of child hunger. Due to high unemployment rates, people are having harder times to feed their families. Because of this Feeding America discovered that these families are forced to make the choice between feeding their household or paying bills and rent to provide a roof and warm bed. Even with organizations such as Hungry Harvest, Feed the Children, Meals on Wheels, Feeding America and No Kid Hungry, studies continue to show that nationwide hunger is still a serious issue in the United States. In order to solve this problem more people need to be made aware of how important it is to help those that don’t have the same luxuries and to create new organizations and programs that lower income families can benefit

The first place I volunteered at was Feed My Starving Children. Feed My Starving Children is an organization that makes nutritional meals for malnourished children. The meals are called MannaPacks and they are packed with rice, soy, dried vegetables, and flavoring. Each station has to measure the ingredients into the bags, weight the bag, then seal the bag. My role was sealing the bags and putting them in a box; and I did that for two hours. My volunteering and the volunteering of others really helped out because 27,000 meals were packed in our shift, which feeds 74 kids for a year. The other two hours that I did, I helped the staff clean up and take everything down. I benefited from this experience because I actually felt like I somewhat

Many problems plague the United States as a country that spans a vast swath of land, contains many over exploited natural resources, and houses 320 million people that come from all stretches of the globe, but one of the single biggest problems is hunger. Child hunger in the United States is at the forefront of this issue. The helpless youth of today quite often become the hopeless adults of tomorrow when their basic needs are not met. This country has enough food to provide its citizens with all of their nutritional needs, but just like so many other expansive problems, distribution is the crux of the matter. With children as the focus, we must hone in on a means to bring the food and children together on a consistent basis. Education in this

When people ask me what I think the biggest problem in the America is today, my answer doesn’t really hit me until I least expect it to. I grew up loving family get togethers, celebrations and any other event resulting in my family going all out on cooking and making sure there are seconds for everyone there. No body left a family get together hungry. I remember sitting down many times and not being able to finish all of the food I thought I could. The silent walk to the trash can trying to have let no one see everything I wasted, I humbly slid past the crowd. It’s not until that very moment a family member says “You’re not going to eat that?” “That is such a waste of food.” Just then it would hit me and I would feel bad. Reminiscing on all

A typical Poulin Family Saturday includes smells of pancakes and butter, fresh air accompanied with yard work, and lots of homework. On one Saturday in June, my mom stopped us in stride and reminded us that this Saturday we would be packing meals with Feed My Starving Children. I didn’t know what to expect and honestly I spent more time thinking about what I would wear (picking out my outfit) to/for the event than what I would actually be doing there. When we got to Calvary E Free Church, the FMSC staff showed us a video about chronically hungry children around the world and how Feed My Starving Children provides nutritious meals to these children…so they can survive. It was hard to look at the pictures of the malnourished kids. It was too painful…For two hours we packed rice, soy, vegetables, and vitamins in small bags and loaded them onto a semi...I went home and totally forgot about this experience. The emotion I felt during the true stories was just that…emotion.

Diabetes, cardiovascular disease, and obesity. What do all of these have in common? They can all be a result of poor nutrition in one’s diet (“The Risks of Poor Nutrition”). In efforts to improve the overall health and wellness of children in America, the Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act was implemented during the Obama administration. This act directly altered the nutritional standards and quality of the food that is served in public schools (Vilsack). The Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act is beneficial to students’ health because it provides the necessary nutrients needed to live healthy lifestyles.

Every year 225,000 people rely on food bank due to financial instability. Growing up in a food desert and demographically low income community, food bank is really the only way for some people in the community to get food. Every saturday, at the break of dawn grannies, low income, and new immigrants all line up waiting for the 7 o'clock door opening at the church. This church is one of the 253 food pantries in the city. When the doors open, they will be ushered in and I signed them in and ensure they get just enough so that the most amount people get the food.

Nutrition is essential for everyone, especially for children. It affects their physical growth and mental development including behaviors, cognitive abilities, weight, and habits. Therefore, food is important for a child to develop cognitively and physically. However, not all families are financially capable of providing their children with healthy and nutritious meals. They are relying on the government throughout various programs to help fulfil their physiological needs and those of their children as well. This paper will demonstrate the effects of the Healthy, Hunger-Free Act on school-age children.

The homeless men, women and children we serve are food insecure. We will provide proper nutrition to hundreds of people each day which improves basic health. One addicted young women came to us fleeing an abusive relationship. She had been on the streets for weeks and had not eaten in 2 days.

Feed My Starving Children (FMSC)–an invaluable partner in Love A Child’s Feeding Programs donates most of our food. The food is packaged and shipped in 40-foot containers. Love A Child pays to transport the food from FMSC in Coon Rapids, MN to the Port of Miami. From there, we pay ocean freight charges to transport the food to Haiti. Once in Haiti, we work with customs officials to have the containers released. Shipping such large containers incurs many charges, including: docking fees, brokerage fees, government fees, and more. Each container of food holds 272,000 meals, Love A Child spends $10,000 in transportation fees for each container. It is through the generosity of our partners, donors and the grace of God that we receive this food each month. That is 2,700,000 meals that we are able to distribute to missionary organizations, our Love A Child Schools, and feeding programs in many poor villages, each month.

Feed My Starving Children was an event within a community outreach project led by the members of the First United Methodist Church of Sikeston Missouri, in December of 2015. The purpose of the event is to pack meals to be sent to impoverished areas of Africa. Over 2,000 members of the community came together to accomplish a common goal: eliminating world hunger.

This year we were fortunate enough to send three of our Love A Child orphan children to the States to receive highly specialized medical care. Getting any of our children who need specialized medical care to the States is always a challenge. We have been so blessed to find the right hospitals, doctors, and sponsors that are able to offer each of these children a chance at a better life and to improve their physical comfort. When each child originally came to our Love A Child Orphanage, they had suffered not only physical pain but also emotional trauma because of their condition.