Comments on: Kids Against Hunger (Feeding Children International)

By: gwendolyn rolle

gwendolyn rolle — Sun, 05 Apr 2009 23:52:16 +0000

this is a blessing of love

please continue to feed the kids who is in need

may god strengthen you and all the volunteers who package the food for the hungry

gwendolyn rolle

By: Scott Carpenter

Scott Carpenter — Mon, 16 Feb 2009 01:21:24 +0000

Thanks for the clarification, Stephanie.

By: Stephanie

Stephanie — Sun, 15 Feb 2009 11:01:15 +0000

Feed My Starving Children is not the same as Kids Against Hunger or Feeding Children International. While the 2 organizations seem to use similar food and packaging techniques, they are in no way affiliated.

One major difference is that Feed My Starving Children (FMSC) meals cost only 17cents while similar Kids Against Hunger meals cost about 23cents a meal. Also, FMSC was founded about 10-13 years before Feeding Children International.

This is a great method to fight hunger internationally. To do the most good, I would recommend donating to FMSC since your money will pay for more meals. FMSC is a Christian nonprofit, 94% of all donations go to feeding the hungry. Go to http://www.fmsc.org for more information.

By: Scott Carpenter

Scott Carpenter — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 01:20:30 +0000

Hi, Nancy. You're welcome, and thanks for commenting. I think those two organizations are the same -- the Kids Against Hunger web site says it is a program of Feeding Children International. I seem to remember that they we're transitioning to primarily use the new name.

I saw an article about Feed My Starving Children and a photo there looked like the same setup with the food packaging.

By: Nancy McIlwain

Nancy McIlwain — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 21:30:09 +0000

Scott,
Thank you for sharing your experience. I have recently found out about KAH and am planning to bring my employees there for a team building outing. This is so much more meaningful than bringing everyone out for a night of bowling!
Does anyone know if Kids Against Hunger is the same as Feed My Starving Children?
In this world, it just does not make sense that anyone should starve. How could you not want to take part in something like this! What a great concept!
Nancy McIlwain

By: Reseda Charity

Reseda Charity — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 20:38:44 +0000

Thanks for the informative article. It made me think up some things. :)

By: Tim Stromer

Tim Stromer — Fri, 02 Feb 2007 14:24:06 +0000

Wow! We sent thousands of meals to katrina, it is so cool to hear about someone getting it, thank you Linda and Buddy! Just to let Ed know, anyone can start a satellite, almost anywhere! Scott, thanks again for posting this, it was a great article! Actually as far as the machines go, if we had ten machines we could feed the entire world everyday. (840 million malnourished) We will never stop the people feeding people packagings, it is too much of a blessing for people to be able to give. God bless, Tim S

By: Linda & Buddy

Linda & Buddy — Tue, 09 Jan 2007 22:38:13 +0000

I just wanted to say thanks to the volunteers and the foundation. My husband and I were given your products to eat during Hurricane Katrina and we were grateful for them. We received the products at a relief station somewhere near Biloxi,Mississippi. Again, Thank you for helping us when we needed it most.
Linda & Buddy
New Orleans,La.

By: Scott Carpenter

Scott Carpenter — Sat, 23 Dec 2006 14:54:40 +0000

Thanks for your comment, Tim. I'm glad you enjoyed the article, and I'm glad people like you are working on this problem.

Sharing is the key, which is why I'm so befuddled by the people who want to control and make it difficult to share digital culture and knowledge. It costs nothing to reproduce!

Imagine if we had a machine that could duplicate food at no marginal cost: how could anyone argue that we should not do this? Food for the body and food for the soul. It will be a great day when everyone can consume as much of each as they need.

By: Tim Stromer

Tim Stromer — Sat, 23 Dec 2006 12:34:18 +0000

Just wanted to thank you for the cool article! I work at the division in Mankato, (Kids Against Hunger) and I am so pumped when people get a hold of it like this. We can end starvation, it's just really hard, and requires us to give up of ourselves more. Like mom used to say...Share...if we all did that to the extent that sometimes it hurt, I don't think we would have any more starving!
God bless you for your words.