We do have a mobile packaging units, we welcome you to set up a packaging event in your area, here are the steps:
1) e-mail, fax or Phone your tentative packaging date ( please have several dates that we may work with).
for Michigan Schools please contact Sue Simcox at
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for all other organizations in Michigan please contact Michael Burwell at
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for organizations in the Great Lakes Region (outside of Michigan) please contact Dr. Burwell at
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Fax 248-281-1772 Phone 248-336-2559
2) With in a seven day time period, an e-mail conformation will be sent to you confirming your packaging date.
3) Secure a facility large enough to host your event.
4) Send a Check for the event 30 days in advance so that your supplies can be purchased.
note (check amount should be the number of meals to be packaged x.28 = check)
5) On the day of the event please have 12 volunteers arriving one hour early to help unload and setup.
Up to 1/3 of the food packaged at the event can be made available to your local food shelters
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Kids Against Hunger Great Lakes Coalition has packaged 5,132,592 meals since the fall of 2004. 1,846,152 of these were packaged in 2009. This year, 2010, KAHC volunteers have packaged 856,872 meals. Since 2004 over 43,028 volunteers have participated in KAHC packaging. KAHC has shipped over 1,000,000 meals to Haiti, through The United States Navy, Coast Guard, and other humanitarian groups. KAHC has shipped over 14,692 meals to the Dominican Republic, over 648,000 meals to Guatemala, and 108,000 to Baton Rouge, Louisiana as part of Hurricane Katrina relief effort. KAHC has sent 50,000 meals to Ghana, and 405,120 to Kenya Africa. KAHC has also shipped 200,000 meals to the following countries: Panama, Nicaragua, Columbia, Dominican Republic, Trinidad, Tobago, and French Guiana. We have shipped over 70,000 meals to Manila in the Philippine Islands. Finally KAHC has shipped over 1,655,528 meals to local community shelters & food depots in Michigan Indiana and Ohio through distribution channels like Our Lady of Fatima delivery systems.