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“I’m going home a happier person than when I came,” said Michelle Lynch, a member of Grace Episcopal Church of Martinez last Saturday as she left the Stop Hunger Now event at St. Paul’s Episcopal Church in Walnut Creek. She was one of the 211 volunteers from all over Contra Costa who had just finished filling and packing up more than 50,000 meals in two hours for hungry children around the world.
“What a terrific crew,’ said Mickey Horner, U.S. Western Regional Director of Stop Hunger Now, who trucked in the supplies bought earlier through local donations from Contra Costa civic groups, congregations and individuals to cover the 25-cent cost per meal. The international agency, whose mission is to stop hunger worldwide, distributes the food packages mainly to children in Third World schools where many are sent solely because there they will be fed a nourishing meal. In is a humane way to educate some of the poorest children in the world.
“Every six seconds,” Horner told the assembled volunteers as they got ready to work, “a child dies of hunger someplace in the world.” That seemed enough to spur on the group as it got into assembly lines to begin the project. The work areas had been set up earlier by volunteers, including youth from Boy Scout Troop 202 that meets at St. Paul’s.
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http://martinez.patch.com/articles/feeding-the-hungry-takes-equal-parts-love-and-effort
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