How much rice could a rice packer pack if a rice packer would pack rice?
That’s what the organization Feed My Starving Children is hoping to find out in Chattanooga in January.
The nonprofit, in collaboration with locally based Covenant Values Foundation, is seeking 8,000 volunteers to spend two hours in an Amnicola Highway warehouse packing 1.5 million meals for distribution among 70 countries around the world.
It’s an opportunity, said Ann Underbrink Hill of Minnesota-based Feed My Starving Children, “to change the world from Chattanooga. Chattanooga has a rich tradition of generous giving, and we want to celebrate that gift.”
She said the organization works in receiving countries directly with small partners, missionaries or other individuals with which it has a relationship and which can be directly accountable.