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STOP HUNGER NOW Meal Packaging Event

WE NOW HAVE ALL 40 VOLUNTEERS!!! THANKS SO MUCH TO ALL WHO WILL BE PART OF THIS AMAZING EVENT!!!

This is going to be one of the most awesome things to happen in Arbutus in a long time!

We are going to package 10,000 meals in just TWO HOURS.

Here is how it works. You sign up to be a volunteer and to raise a little bit of money if you can. IF YOU CAN RAISE $50 YOU GET A FREE COMMEMORATIVE T-SHIRT.

Our main task now is raising funds!

IF YOU WOULD LIKE TO DONATE TO THIS CAUSE, CONTACT  joe.wickless@gmail.com

Each meal costs 25 cents, so we need $2,500.00. We've already raised some of that and have a couple of fund raisers in mind, but we'll need everyone to help out just a little bit to raise money. 

Volunteers will show up on November 12th at about 8:45 AM and receive some quick training from the STOP HUNGER NOW staff. They bring all the equipment and all of the food for packaging.

Then for the next two hours, we all work like a finely tuned machine and package 10,000 meals that will be delivered to someplace like Somalia or Haiti or Darfur - wherever the need is greatest to feed starving people.

Here is a short video, EVERY SIX SECONDS, that you must watch. When I saw it, I was changed.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qyu7pmsOdaw

Here is the STOP HUNGER NOW web site.
www.stophungernow.org

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