Warsaw volunteers pack 1,124,712 meals for children
At a Feed My Starving Children mobile pack in Warsaw, 4,209 volunteers, including 2,376 students, packed 1,124,712 meals and beat the goals they had set.
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Volunteers in Warsaw packed more meals than they had aimed for, InkFreeNews reported. The Feed My Starving Children mobile pack drew 4,209 people, and 2,376 of them were students. The total they boxed up was 1,124,712 meals.
That figure is the count from this pack, past the goals the organizers had set. It is a tally of bags filled in Warsaw, not a measure of every child who needs a meal.
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In Warsaw, Indiana, volunteers stood at tables and packed meals through Feed My Starving Children. The group counted 4,209 volunteers. Of those, 2,376 were students. Together they packed 1,124,712 meals, which is more than 1.1 million. They also packed more than the goals they had set before the event. A meal pack like this is many people doing the same small motion, filling bags, until the number gets very large. The meals are for children who need food. The news is the count they reached in Warsaw, not a guess about hunger everywhere.
- How can a lot of small jobs add up to more than a million meals?
- Why would students be a big part of a packing day?
- What would your class need if it wanted to help pack food?
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