"Kids Food" Bagging Project

The "Kids Food" Bagging Project is an exciting opportunity for your church or organization that will provide a meaningful project for all ages, and will literally feed thousands more hungry Haitian children through Lifeline and other mission organizations in Haiti.  Lifeline’s desire is to provide the bagging opportunity to those who would like to have a “hands on” impact on the hunger in Haiti.  A full 40-foot container of "Kids Food" is 1200 boxes containing 258,000 meals!

 

"Kids Food" is a special highly nutritious, quick cooking, easy packaging  food that was developed to address the problem of rampant, worldwide hunger and starvation.

Pictures from a "Kids Food" Bagging Project at Lifeline's warehouse.

Bagging Project Details:

• All ages are welcome to bag...a great project for families, individuals, youth groups, churches, scouts, senior citizen groups, etc.

• Participants will measure, bag, weigh, seal, box and put the boxes on pallets and then onto the 40-foot container to be shipped to Haiti.  Lifeline uses and shares the "Kids Food" with 19 other missions who are approved recipients.

• An entire 40-foot container is 1200 boxes or 285,000 meals, and costs $30,000.00 per container, including shipping and field processing costs.

• We ask for a minimum, tax-deductible donation of $25.00 for 2 hours of bagging.  Like a jog-a-thon or race, participants may get sponsors.  This is a fund raising project to raise the money for the food, supplies and shipping.

 

Bagging projects at Lifeline's warehouse in Westerville, OH:

• Scheduled times are held in spring, summer and fall (weather permitting), usually with all-day bagging sessions with 2 hour time slots.  Typically Lifeline does NOT do an entire container at one time but offers these bagging opportunities to accommodate smaller groups, then ships the food on containers with other goods. 

• Participants will spend a 2 hour shift measuring, bagging, weighing, sealing, boxing and putting the boxes on pallets and then onto the 40 foot container to be shipped.

• Groups should plan on 3 hours total at Lifeline’s warehouse for registration, group photo, prayer, instructions, visiting the media center and light refreshments before/after the 2 hours of bagging. 

• Larger groups may schedule their own bagging session at Lifeline's warehouse.  Lifeline can accommodate groups up to 100 persons at a 2 hour shift with a minimum requirement of 20 persons at a donation of $25 per person.  Otherwise smaller groups can come to scheduled Lifeline bagging sessions with any number of participants; Lifeline will add them to a group if necessary.

• For more details, contact Greg@Lifeline.org.

 

Remote Bagging Projects at YOUR location:

• Contact Gretchen@Lifeline.org for additional details.

• For a full container: 285,000 meals at a current cost of 11 cents per meal.  This equates to 1200 people bagging for 2 hours each at $25.00 per person in donations.  Guarantee is for $30,000.00 in donations.  With a full container, all ingredients and supplies are shipped directly to the bagging site, loaded on to the container and shipped to Haiti from the site. One half ($15,000.00) must be raised and paid to Lifeline 30 days in advance before supplies, ingredients and container can be arranged

• Partial container: 13 cents per meal to bring equipment and ingredients on site and truck them back to Lifelines warehouse for shipping at a later date. Minimum required is 45,000 meals, or 1/5 of a container which is $6000.00 minimum in donations. One-half (1/2) of guaranteed amount must be raised and paid to Lifeline 30 days in advance.  Guaranteed amounts can be increased up to 2 weeks in advance of bagging event.  In the case of partial containers Lifeline will come with extra supplies and ingredients.  If more food is bagged than guaranteed, an additional 13 cents per meal will be required for all meals over the minimum guaranteed.

               

Project History:

In December 2005, Lifeline learned of the organization "Kids Against Hunger".  Through their generosity,  Lifeline was able to receive the first of hopefully many 40 foot containers full of what we have nicknamed in Haiti our  “Kids Food”.  Upon receiving this first container in February 2006  toddlers and students in Lifeline’s Christian schools and nutrition programs began receiving “Kids Food”, prepared daily as a hot lunch.

 

“Kids Against Hunger” (Feeding Children International):

Kids Against Hunger began as a small locally-based project of its parent organization, Feeding Children International. Through the vision of the founder, Richard Proudfit of Minnesota and others who have joined their team, a special highly nutritious, quick cooking, easy packaging  food was developed to address the problem of rampant, worldwide hunger and starvation.  “Kids Against Hunger” is a volunteer-driven effort to package and distribute food in communities worldwide. “Kids Against Hunger” believes that every person can make a difference in the fight against national and global hunger.  Kids Against Hunger not only nourishes hungry children, but the spirit of its volunteers.  Each week volunteers come together at various satellite locations to package hundreds of much-needed food servings being shipped all over the world. In 2005, thanks to their volunteers and their financial sponsors, Kids Against Hunger sent over 8.5 million meals to children in 17 countries including the U.S.A.  Visit www.feedingchildren.org for more details.

 

“Kids Helping Kids” (Lifeline Christian Mission):

In an effort to meet the needs of thousands of undernourished and hungry kiddies in Haiti,  Lifeline has chosen to utilize our staff, volunteers, warehouse, and supporters to further the mutual goal of Lifeline and “Kids Against Hunger” to reach as many as possible in Haiti with this nutrition source. Our desire is to not only provide for the nutritional needs of those young people touched by Lifeline, but for Lifeline Christian Mission to become a distributor throughout Haiti to hundreds of thousands of other children reached by other Christian Church Missions.  Already we have shared some of our blessings with three other missions.  We now have the capability, through our  “duty free” shipping privileges, and through our Haitian staff, loading dock, warehouses and box trucks to distribute this great source of nutrition through these other missions, as well as expand Lifeline’s  nutrition and feeding programs to even more of the 9000 Haitian children daily  in Lifeline’s schools in Haiti. And with more food, more can be fed.