Waukesha group seeks volunteers to package 500,000 Haiti meals

Jan. 25, 2010

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By Laurel Walker of the Journal Sentinel

Jan. 25, 2010 0

Waukesha - The Waukesha branch of Kids Against Hunger, an organization that assembles packages of nutritionally balanced dried food that can serve six people each, is hoping to rally volunteers in Waukesha County this Thursday, Friday and Saturday to prepare 500,000 meals for earthquake victims in Haiti.

Children, families, senior citizens - anyone able to sit or stand for 90 minutes and fill bags on an assembly line - can register for shifts by calling (262) 251-9870.

Participants must register for a spot, and each participant should bring $25 in cash or check to cover the cost of food that will be packaged.

The effort will run from 6 to 9 p.m. Thursday and Friday and 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday. The operation will be set up at Westwood Business Center, W229-N1420 Westwood Dr., City of Pewaukee, north of I-94 off Highway F, next door to American TV & Appliance.

The Kids Against Hunger works with the non-profit Feeding Children International to provide nutritional meals to places around the country and world. Donations are tax deductible. For more information, call (262) 253-2188.

About Laurel Walker

Laurel Walker covered local, school and county government for 20 years -- the last half of that at the Milwaukee Journal and Milwaukee Journal Sentinel -- before she was named Waukesha County columnist in 1997. Today she writes about the people, places and events around metropolitan Milwaukee with a broad suburban focus. She was the youngest of nine children raised on a central Wisconsin farm before leaving the nest for journalism studies at the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire and a masters degree at the University of Oregon. She has spent the last half of her life in Waukesha County, where she and her husband raised two sons. Though she has a fondness for life in Waukesha, she eagerly partakes in the culture of the big city to the east and the recreation of the forests to the west. With sons in the arts, she has a special fondness for symphonic music concerts and art museums. She finds peace in a good book at a Northwoods getaway weekend, adventure in family visits to the east and west coasts, and satisfaction in a column well-written that reaches readers.