MEALS: The meals that are packed are highly nutritious dehydrated meals comprised of rice, soy, vegetables, and 21 essential vitamins and minerals. Each meal packet provides a reasonable serving for about six people, and each serving costs about 34 cents to make. Because the meals have a long shelf life and are easy to store, they are an ideal food source to distribute internationally and across large distances.

MEAL PACKAGING: 40 children and adult volunteers are organized into four primary stations: vitamin preparation, mixing, sealing/weighing, and packaging. Vitamin preparation involves labeling the bags and making sure every bag has a vitamin packet placed horizontally at the bottom. These prepped bags are then transferred to the mixing station in which the rest of the ingredients are added in a specific order, rice being the last addition. These bags are then transferred to weighing/sealing where rice is either added or removed to adhere to weight qualifications, and the bags are subsequently heat sealed. Lastly, these heat sealed bags are gently shaken to ensure proper sealing and are then counted and packed into boxes. Older children volunteers or adult volunteers will then transfer these completed boxes to the truck.

MEAL DISTRIBUTION: We work with another non-profit organization that handles the materials for meal packing events, as well as the international meal distribution. The meals we pack provide food to support feeding programs in schools and orphanages around the world. This is an important aspect of the our meal distribution because the children in impoverished areas are often sent to school just to be fed. The ability to promote education and simultaneously aid world hunger is a factor that our organization takes great pride in. 

Our volunteers start at as young as 4 years old and have been the backbone of the organization since 2014. We offer recognition when volunteers reach and exceed 25 hours of exemplary service. Their hours are documented in each event, and certificates can be given for any amount upon request. Keep up the hard work guys!

STUDENT VOLUNTEERS WHO HAVE COMPLETED 100 HOURS AS OF 1/1/2020:

Charan Balakrishnan

Nikhil Boyala

Sidharth Burre

STUDENT VOLUNTEERS WHO HAVE COMPLETED 50 HOURS AS OF 1/1/2020:

Heman Burre 

Ujval Burre 

Riya Paspulati

Smaran Paspulati 

Rishi Tamisetti

Ashish Tamisetti

Veeksha Veeramachanane

Vishvag Veeramachanane 

STUDENT VOLUNTEERS WHO HAVE COMPLETED 25 HOURS AS OF 1/1/2020:

Ayana Bullock

Sanjana Chodavarapu

Ishan Datey 

Saanvi Kandala

Vineet Kandala 

Rohan Konanki 

Aadhya Lakireddy 

Akshara Maroju

Krishna Maroju

Andrea Motas

Siddhant Nalawade 

Haarika Nandula

Rithika Nandula 

Angela Nguyen

Jessica Nguyen

Sanjana Panthangi

Shalini Panthangi 

Apurva Perla 

Alex Wilson

​Madison Wilson 

Our meals have gone out to a variety of schools internationally and have even contributed to specific global calamities. Here are some examples of how our contributions have provided necessary aid. 

Meals we packed on March 2, 2014 were shipped to Panama.
One portion of the meals we packed on March 2, 2014 were sent through Reach Now International to their partner Fundación Castillo Del Ray in Panama.
Foundation Castillo Del Ray is a nonprofit organization that provides meals to six elementary schools and one high school in Panama. In these schools, Foundation Castillo Del Ray feeds more than 1,500 students on a daily basis. This food will help the schools allocate resources to improve their infrastructure, enhance teaching methods, and provide clothing for the students.

Another portion went to Haiti. This shipment was sent through Convoy of Hope. Convoy of Hope, a 501(c)3 faith-based nonprofit, has served more than 55 million people throughout the world through international children's feeding initiatives, community outreaches, disaster response and partner resourcing. In Haiti, Convoy collaborates with the Haitian NGO Mission of Hope Haiti to reach needy children. Mission of Hope Haiti (MOH) exists to bring life transformation to every man, woman, and child in Haiti. Through their many programs, MOH seeks to create holistic transformation utilizing indigenous mobilization, relational proclamation and excellent implementation. Programs include education, church advancement, medical care, orphan care, disaster relief, earthquake relief, cholera relief, nutrition, home construction and Haiti One, an alliance of non-profit partners working together to bring change to Haiti. Convoy of Hope and Mission of Hope currently serve more than 50,000 meals per day to children in schools and orphanages across Haiti. www.convoyofhope.org, www.mohhaiti.org 

Meals we packed on October 06, 2018 were shipped to Haiti.
 

Meals we sent was be received by Salesian Missions in Haiti.

Our meals will support the holistic work of Salesian Missions in Haiti. The Salesians work in Cite Soleil, Haiti, to socially and economically rehabilitate street children through the Lakay/Lakou three-step program. Cite Soleil is one of the most dangerous neighborhoods in Haiti, and armed gangs are in control of most of the area behind the Salesian complex. During the first stage of the program, the Salesians get to know the youth who live on the streets, especially the young women who are working in prostitution. Between 200 and 300 students come to the second stage house, Lakou, every day, because it is a safe place where they can get what is usually their only cooked meal of the day. Students at Lakou participate in workshops to learn trades and they are invited to stay over one night per week. The third stage, Lakay, consists of dormitories, classrooms, and workshops where the Salesians house and care for 150 students, educating them, teaching them a trade, feeding them three meals a day, and taking steps to reconcile the students with their families. www.salesianmissions.org