Not just for kids
About 400 people help package 40,000 meals destined for Africa
It was a sunny Saturday morning, yet hundreds of local volunteers spent part of it indoors at the Brainerd Armory.
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About 400 people working three shifts packaged 40,000 meals during the Kids Against Hunger event sponsored by Outreach International.
Peyton McConke and her father, Michael, worked together to package meals Saturday during the Kids Against Hunger event. Brainerd Dispatch/Kelly Humphrey» Purchase reprints of this photo.
The meals consisted of rice, soy protein, dehydrated vegetables and a vitamin/mineral pack and are destined for Tanzania, Africa - where local medical personnel have done mission work in the past.
Hundreds of area volunteers helped package 40,000 meals Saturday at the Brainerd Armory during the Kids Against Hunger event. Brainerd Dispatch/Kelly Humphrey» Purchase reprints of this photo.
Despite the name Kids Against Hunger, the volunteers ranged in age from children to adult.
Carter Woodwick, 4, carefully poured dehydrated vegetables into a funnel while packing meals Saturday during the Kids Against Hunger event at the Brainerd Armory. Brainerd Dispatch/Kelly Humphrey» Purchase reprints of this photo.
"It's for all of us who have ever been kids," said Ellen Pighko, who turned 65 Monday.