Volunteers from Local Businesses Pack 20,000 Meals at Stop Hunger Now Event

RALEIGH, N.C. - May 7, 2013 - PRLog -- Raleigh, N.C. (May 7, 2013) – Volunteers from local businesses assembled 20,000 meals at an after-hours Stop Hunger Now event on May 6. The meals were packaged at Lonerider Brewery, also an event co-sponsor.

About 150 volunteers wore plastic gloves and hair nets while dancing to music and working together to assemble 20,000 meals over a three-hour span. A gong rang after every 1,000 meals were packaged, which led to loud cheering, keeping everyone eager and energized.

“We are so thankful to work hand in hand with RPG Solutions, Citrix, Lonerider Brewery and BioResource International to co-sponsor this humanitarian event,” said Chuck Norman, owner/principal, S&A Cherokee. “We often take things like three meals a day for granted here in the United States, so being involved in events like this is important and crucial for making a change in our world.”

Stop Hunger Now is a nonprofit organization that has packaged more than 97 million meals delivered to 76 countries. These meals include 21 essential vitamins and nutrients, protein and rice.

For more information about Stop Hunger Now’s meal packaging events, please visit www.stophungernow.org or call (919) 839-0689.

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About Stop Hunger Now
Stop Hunger Now is an international hunger relief organization that coordinates the distribution of food and other life-saving aid around the world. The organization is driven by a vision of a world without hunger and a mission to end hunger in our lifetime by providing food and life-saving aid to the world’s most vulnerable and by creating a global commitment to mobilize the necessary resources.