19,440 Meals!

Thanks to Gabe and K2, packed and spread among the 3 pieces of luggage each team member is allowed to take to Uganda, will be 1944 packages of food. When boiled in about six quarts of water, a each package will provide about 10 servings, enough to give each child at Rock of Ages Pre-School one meal a day for about six months!
The boxes, containing the packages of food, are stacked in the lobby of Grace Lutheran Church ready to be packed in our luggage. They are donations from K2 Church in Salt Lake. K2 is a meal packaging satellite of Kids Against Hunger, a humanitarian food-aid organization whose mission is to significantly reduce the number of hungry children all over the world. They do this by mobilizing volunteer organizations across the USA and Canada to package a highly nutritious, vitamin-fortified soy-rice casserole and distributing those meals to starving children and their families in over 60 countries through partnerships with humanitarian organizations worldwide. The only restriction K2 put on giving food to our group was that we deliver it ourselves. It could not be shipped. They want to ensure that the food actually reaches the kids.

Gabe "accidentally " discovered K2 on a trip to Salt Lake to address some medical issues he was experiencing. Snowed in, he attended K2 with his son. There he saw folks packing the meals. One thing lead to another and soon K2 committed to donate food for our mission. God's hand!

What's in these casseroles? (from their web site)
"Kids Against Hunger's meals have been formulated by food scientists to provide a rich source of easily digestible protein, carbohydrates, and vitamins needed by a malnourished child's body and mind. The food also accommodates to the broad diversity of ethnic tastes and religious differences around the world.

Kids Against Hunger's meals offer all nine of the essential amino acids required for complete nutrition - something that can't be said about other typical food relief sources such as rice or beans alone.

The beauty of the food formulation is its simplicity. It is made from four readily available, dry ingredients that are easy to package, keep for long periods, and require only boiling with water to prepare. Despite the simplicity of the food's content, it is a nutritionally complex and well balanced meal."

• High-quality white, long-grain rice
• Vitamin-fortified, crushed soy
• Dehydrated blend of six vegetables
• Chicken-flavored, vegetarian vitamin & mineral powder

These meals make a difference in kids lives. Check out the Kids Against Hunger website and find out more about this amazing organization and how they are helping hungry kids around the world!