Kiwanis helping Kids Against Hunger

The Kiwanis Club of Jamestown is holding a fundraiser beginning at noon Saturday for Kids Against Hunger. The club will be selling soup and baked goods at the Buffalo Mall in Jamestown. The event is in conjunction with Cabin Fever Days and the mall’s Blue Grass Jam to be held from 1 to 4 p.m.

The Depot, Grizzly’s, Pantry Café, McDonald’s and the All Vets Club donated food for this event.

Soup and a beverage will be sold for $5; prices for the baked goods will vary.

All proceeds will go to Kids Against Hunger, a program that packages highly nutritious, life-saving meals for starving and malnourished children in developing countries and the United States. The Kiwanis Club has committed to raising $23,000 and packaging 100,000 meals for the organization. On April 16, the meals will be assembled at the old Walt Sanders facility in southeast Jamestown. Four hundred volunteers will be needed for the event.

Kids against Hunger is a nonprofit, food aid organization with the mission to significantly reduce the number of undernourished children in the United States and starving children around the world. A single food package costs just 23 cents, contains 21 essential vitamins, and is prepared in less than 20 minutes by adding boiling water. The Kids Against Hunger food packaging network has its international headquarters office located in New Hope, MN. To learn more about Kids Against Hunger, visit its website at www.kidsagainsthunger.org. For more information about Jamestown’s Kids Against Hunger event, contact Janna Bergstedt at 253-5109 or janna.bergstedt@firstcommunitycu.com.

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