Last year at the Corn Palace 1,100 volunteers packed 380,068 meals in less than ten hours. Nearly $100,000 was raised for the event. And now Brookings and the surrounding communities have the opportunity to pack meals for the hungry people in Haiti. This is more important now than ever in the aftermath of the Haiti tragedy.

Leading scientists from ADM, Cargill & General Mills worked together to come up with the formula for the food, which is a highly nutritious blend that will save people’s lives. That formula is packaged together during a food packing event.

Each bag holds 6 meals and each meal is only 25¢ for the raw ingredients & to ship the food.

The raw ingredients include:

• Textured Soybean, fortified with 9 vitamins and minerals (making it 52% protein)
• 6 Vegetables for taste
• Rice for filler
• Vegetarian chicken flavored powder
• 21 Vitamins and Minerals

A shipping container will hold 285,120 meals. Imagine being able to provide one meal a day for an entire year for a community of almost 800 starving people. What a great way to spend 25c! What a great way to spend a day!

With SDSU as a Land Grant University, and Brookings as the county seat, steeped in agriculture, we can join together and become a community that feeds the world. That makes a very real difference… that Impacts Lives.

So here is the BIG PROJECT for Brookings, SD: Saturday, 27 March 2010 at the Larson Ice Center, Blue Rink…

• We could gather together from every corner of our community.
  
• We could pack in one day at least 285,120 meals.
  
• We could enlist 1000 volunteers: 200 people per shift, 5 shifts, 2 hours each, from 8 am – 6 pm.
  
• We could pool our resources and come up with the $72,000 that it will cost for the ingredients and shipping.
  
• We could work elbow to elbow to pack 1320 boxes, each $54.00 /box containing 36 bags of 6 meals.

Do you want to be a part of this exciting event?

How you can participate

Financially--we need to raise $72,000.00.

Broken down it might look like this:

7 gifts of $5,000

12 gifts of $1000

10 gifts of $500

75 gifts of $100

And $12,500 additional gifts of undetermined amounts

Hands-on volunteering

Sign up volunteers to work 2 hour shifts at the Larson Ice Center, Blue Rink (located behind Swiftel Center)

8-10 am

10-12 Noon

12 Noon-2 pm

2-4 pm

4-6 pm

For more information please contact:

Donna Burke, Volunteer Coordinator, 605-693-4765, This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it

Deanne Weninger, Volunteer Coordinator, 605-692-8740, This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it

Pastor Nyla Schoeld, General Information, 605-692-6251, This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it

Beth Niemeyer, General Information, 605-693-3071, This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it

If you would like a presentation for your group, we will be happy to come and tell you all about this great opportunity to show compassion to a hurting world.

DONATE TODAY!

Click "Donate" below and you'll be directed to a page where you'll be asked to fill in donor information, and you'll then be redirected to PayPal to complete your secure transaction. In order to designate your contribution properly, please select the campaign "ImpactLives-Brookings" on the following page and make mention of the same in the comments box.

Thank you for your generosity and for making a difference in the lives of hungry children!