“Awesome!” That’s how many described the experience of packing 1 million meals for hungry kids living across the border and around the world. Families, parish groups and students worked side-by-side to the beat of music. This diocesan event returns June 10 and 11, 2023. Be a part of it!
– Matthew 25:35
I think it was wonderful! Older people working alongside kids. All of us Catholics, just willing to give to the poor. This was an amazing experience.”
– Irene Rodgers, volunteer from Resurrection Church
This event is unlike any other project.
Volunteers all ages and from all corners of the region come together joyously for one purpose: pack 1 million meals for kids living in poverty. They work in teams, assembly-line style, all to the beat of fun music.
In 2022, the volunteers wanted to keep going even as the ingredients ran out.
This extraordinary event returns in 2023 on June 10 and 11 at Cathedral Catholic High School. The organizers, the deacons of the San Diego Diocese, will once more need at least 3,000 volunteers and $250,000 in donations to buy the meal ingredients.
Parishes, schools, clubs and families are encouraged to organize their members to participate as a group, and to raise funds for the event. Every $1 that is donated pays for four nutritious meals, in collaboration with the organization Kids Around the World.
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The food packed by volunteers in the Million Meal Event in June 2022 was distributed to the poorest families in Tijuana, the Philippines and Africa.
In Tijuana, the meals were distributed by the Franciscan Missionaries of Our Lady, Queen of Peace, which run Casa de los Pobres. They handed out the meal packets twice a month to the families that converged in their facility by foot and bus.
And two sisters went out several times a month to far-flung neighborhoods where families live in improvised housing, struggling to survive day to day.
The meal packets were tangible proof that individuals, families and parishes gladly put their faith in action to ease a child’s hunger and to bring them hope.
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The organizers for Million Meals need to raise $375,000 by June 10, to pay for the ingredients of 1.5 million meals. Please consider making a donation. No amount is too small, just $25 buys 100 meals.
