Hello Melts,
 
Thank you so very much for signing up to help with the  One Million Meals http://onemillionmeals.info service project; our goal is to package part of One Million Meals at the Lake County Fairgrounds on Peterson Road in Grayslake, on December 5th to send to starving children of the world through Feed My Starving Children http://fmsc.org

You will donate two hours of your time with 500 other teens to package life saving meals consisting of: 

• rice
• soy nuggets
• vitamins/minerals. 

You will actually help measure out these three components into bags, seal the bags and box them.

The TGIF Group will meet at the Lake County Fairgrounds at 5:30 pm on Saturday, December 5th.  We will need to fill out some minor paperwork and be prepared in our group to begin with a video presentation at 6 pm sharp!   So please arrive early so that you can find your friends to work with for the event.    If you cannot attend, please let me know immediately as all of the slots are filled and I will have to try to find a replacement for you!  There will be 34 assembly lines with 500 teens working to assemble about 100,000 meals in that 2-hour time period.   If you have any questions, please call me at 847-223-2622 - Linda Vadnais.    I am so proud of all of you - please bring your Advent Preparation sacrifice (if you have any) to donate to the cause!  We will have a great time - any teens wishing to go to Jack's Pizza afterward, please bring $3 for pizza & pop.                     Peace,   Linda Vadnais

 
We will work from 6:00 - 8:00 pm, but arrive at 5:30.
Please reply to this email to let me know that you received this reminder - otherwise, I will have to call you this week.  Thanks.  If you signed up with a friend, but they didn't get a copy of this, please use this link to send it to him/her (I couldn't read all of the written email addresses!)  Thanks. 

Why is it so important?

Each day, 18,000 children around the world starve to death; that is one child dies every 6 seconds from starvation.

One Million Meals can help supply Feed My Starving Children with life-saving meals for children to eat, hopefully twice a day.  Can you imagine our children being thankful to eat the same serving of rice twice a day?  No variety, no selection, just a life-saving food source.

Donations are Appreciated

Each meal costs $0.17, but is priceless to a starving child.  If you cannot help, but your organization would like to help support the cost of the meals, any donation of any size is greatly appreciated.

Times are tough for many families, but if you can find it in your heart to help fund some of the meals that are packaged, your donation, no matter how small, will be used wisely - 94% of all donations go directly to the cost of the food.

Here are some helpful links:

Feed My Starving Children Fact Sheet Download

Feed My Starving Children Poster

Feed My Starving Children Photo Gallery:  http://www.fmsc.org/Page.aspx?pid=335

Feed My Starving Children Video Library: http://www.fmsc.org/Page.aspx?pid=314

If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to call me or email me.  Thank you for your time and consideration.

Linda Vadnais
Your Site Doctor