Sylvan Learning Center Supports “Feed My Starving Children” Campaign

Preparations are underway for Darien’s 3rd annual Feed My Starving children (FMSC) Mobile Pack Event, to be held on October 1 & 2, 2011 at MiddlesexMiddle School.  The event is hosted by Darien’s 11 local churches and co-sponsored by the council for DarienSchool Parents, and last year over 1,000 Darien children and adults gathered at the middle school to pack 228,096 meals!   Local Sylvan students and their families are invited to participate in this unique weekend program, the goal of which is to package 300,000 meals, nutritionally designed for optimum health, that will be delivered to thousands of starving children across the globe.  Each sponsoring community underwrites the cost of the program (this year $57,000) through various town-based fundraising events.  FMSC and Sylvan will be handing out FREE tubes of M & Ms, which, when empty, can be filled with quarters and returned to the Center. Each tube holds 56 quarters ($14.00) enough to create 73 Manna-Pack rice meals.  Proceeds from the M & M fundraiser will go directly to the support the October Mobile pack Event.

Feed My Starving Children, a Minnesota based, Christian not-for-profit, was founded in 1987 and since its inception has packed and delivered hundreds of millions meals for people around the world in life-threatening situations.  Each day more than 18,000 children die from starvation in the world.  But FMSC is making a difference!   1,500 Volunteers will be needed for the October event for shifts lasting two hours, and signs-ups will begin in early September.

Sylvan is proud to help support this life-changing event – we hope you will join us by saving your quarters and filling your tubes, after you have enjoyed your M & Ms, of course!  If you prefer instead to fill your tube with bills or write a check, all contributions will be welcome.  Checks should be made out to FMSC with event code #1110-58.